The Creation of Women: A Feminist Reading of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.

A struggle against the male-dominated society which mistreats women has been promoted by feminist critics of the feminist movement. The suffragette movement of the early 19th century led rise to the feminist voices like Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir who fought against the social degradation of females by the domineering males. In The second sex French Simone de Beauvoir focuses on how the society as a whole creates females. It was followed by American Kate Millett who in her Sexual Politics criticizes many male authors for depicting males reigning over females. Coupled with these, Indian Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her essay ‘‘Can the subaltern speak’’ throws light on the subaltern suppressed females of British ruled India who had no voice to express their thoughts. In accordance with these opinions, this paper aims to analyze David Herbert Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers from the perspective of these three feminist critics.