Requirement Of Ideological Recasting Of Feminism In Edward Abbey’s Hayduke Lives!

Abstract

Edward Abbey is a twentieth-century environmental writer. His novels primarily focus on environmental issues, nature, realism, ethical lack of media, and feminism. The present novel Hayduke Lives! traces the moisture in the fringe of the uprooted root of a massive tree (male chauvinism). With the assistance of the feminist movement, a lot of superstitious beliefs and evil practices exercised against women were brought to light and eradicated. However, the remnants of injustice against women are still in existence; even at present, women are encountering physical abuse at home, at workplaces, and even in public places. They are not free from mental suffering too as women are being forced to abide by the traditional practices and social customs. The primary victims of traditions and customs are none other than women since such practices were employed by men. On the one hand, there is talk about, for instance, females’ way of dressing and the shape of their bodies; on the other hand, it is a matter of nothing when it comes to men in contemporary society. These practices are the result of the chauvinistic mental state of men who think that they are superior to women; rather women think that they are equal to men as feminism postulates. Men are after women to satisfy their needs but when women are in need would be neglected. It is depicted in Abbey’s Hayduke Lives! and it delineates how the pathetic conditions of women remain unchanged even at present despite the existence of feminism on the field for centuries and how women are being treated as sexual toys sans respecting their feelings and their emotions.