WHEN WOMEN GO WILD

Abstract

This paper reveals and makes manifest through the experiences of women
poets of Tamil literature, the atrocities of self proclaimed ‘Guardians of Society’1 in
modern times. These guardians have assumed their duties of making the things falling
in particular realm; physical as well as mental, where women have no space of their
own. Though the situation of women is now quite apparent, what makes it more difficult
for them to organize themselves is the fact that they are fighting against faceless
monster. This faceless monster, the ‘patriarchal’ society, always creates confusion
because it always saves its own masculine ideologies through the neutrality of society in
general.
In other words, patriarchal society has to be fought against through diversified
experiences of women poets because their sense of being a woman differs from each
other as differs their situations of confrontations.These experiences can better be
understood through the experiences of Tamil women poets like Malathi Maithri,
Sukirtharani and Salma. They restrict the patriarchal dominance in the literary realm
and through it hope of something constructive in the society. In this process, they are
trying not only to question the so-called-guardians’ authority but also trying to suggest
new ways of limiting these patriarchal voices. This time they are suggesting some wild
ways through wicked words and hence title, ‘When Women Go Wild’.