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Original Article
The Interanimated Matrix: Women, Nature, and Patriarchy in the Novels of Sudha Murty and Pundalik Naik
Prashasti Menon1
Dr. Vibha Singh Thakur2
1 Research Scholar, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. 2 Supervisor, Assistant Professor, Head of the department, Department of English, C.M.D. Post Graduate College, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Published Online: March-April 2026
Pages: 118-123
Cite this article
↗ https://www.doi.org/10.59256/ijrtmr.20260602019
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3. Miles, Kathryn. “Ecofeminism.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica. Oct. 09, 2018,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ecofeminism. Accessed on November 29, 2025.
4. Murty, Sudha. Gently Falls The Bakula. Penguin Books, 2008.
5. Naik, Pundalik. The Upheaval. Oxford University Press, 2002.
6. Ortner, Sherry, B. Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds.), Woman, Culture and Society.
Stanford University Press, 1974, pp. 64-78.
7. Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Routledge, 1993.
8. Rangarajan, Swarnalatha. Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Strategies, edited by Scott Slovic, Orient Blackswan Private Limited,
2018.
9. Ruether, Rosemary. Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization and World Religions. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
10. Shiva, Vandana. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Zed Books, 1988.
11. Soper, Kate. “Naturalized Women and Feminized Nature.” The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism. Edited by
Laurence Coupe, Routledge, 2000, pp. 132-159
12. Soper, Kate. “The Politics of Nature: Reflections on Hedonism, Progress and Ecology.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (2): 47-70. Doi:
10.1080/10455759909358857. [Taylor and Francis online], [Google Scholar], 1999
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