Subversion of patriarchy in Edward St Aubyn’s Mother’s Milk

Abstract

This research explores the female resistance against male superiority in Edward St Aubyn’s Mother’s Milk. Female characters use maternity/motherhood and sisterly solidarity to prove their identity and equal rights in the male society. By projecting, maternity and sisterly solidarity, women prove that maternity is not the burden imposed upon them; rather it is the power of agency and self realization through which they establish their own identity and superiority over male centered society. Most importantly, the research foregrounds the issue of maternity and sisterly solidarity is a strong way to fight male centered society. Moreover, throwing away the patriarchal imperatives of feminist, he intensifies the maternal voice against repressive patriarchal confinement. Thus, the female characters revolt against the males making their own way to freedom by undermining the male’s authority.