Brian Chien
Social class, Religion, Nationality all that Makes up a Women
Ms. Boness
English(II) P.4
04/05/07
Throughout the majority of time, women have been subordinate to men within many societies. During the Indian Colonial period, women in England began fighting for their right to be equal to the men. While in British India, women did the opposite; they tried to impose the Victorian culture and European style of inferiority on the Indian women. Just as in E. M. Forster's colonial novel A Passage to India, the women had to over come many struggles from being able to work to what rights they had in their own homes. In A Passage to India, Forester expresses his opinion about how women were treated within their societies depending on their social class, nationality, how they dress and what religion they belonged to.
In both England and India, the fashion of women began to change during the colonial period. Since India was a large exporter of both silk and cotton, clothes......
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