IMPACT OF PREVALENT PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY ON WORKING MOTHERS WITH GEORGIA MAIDEN’S CONFESSIONS OF A ONCE FASHIONABLE MUM

Abstract

The social conduct of patriarchy encompasses the lives of women and impacts their roles as professionals and workers. This befuddling institutionalization of imposing restrictions and responsibilities on women without consent stigmatizes society’s reputation and shuns a woman’s life to restrictions. Georgia Maiden’s novel Confessions of a Once Fashionable Mum delves into the impacted lives of women due to the patriarchal system and promotes the identity of working mothers as designated with liberation, independence and equal rights. It focuses on the responsibility of new mothers and their sacrifice on their careers to keep up with society’s definition of an ideal mother. The research contends the role of women as working mothers by opposing the setup of patriarchal society and ancient philosophies by speaking for women worldwide. The research analyzes the text by employing the Theory of Work Adjustment by Fitzgerald & Rounds, 1994 and Frug’s Postmodern Feminist Theory (1992) forming a stance on feminism and working mothers in the patriarchal society.