As an exponent of Dalit feminism Urmila Pawar finds the right space to articulate the pain, suffering, humiliation, the deplorable realities of patriarchy and consequently the resistance in her memoir The Weave of My Life. This patriarchal dominance made the Dalit women vulnerable to face violence inside and outside of the society. Most forms of feminism characterize patriarchy as an unjust social system that is oppressive to women and is dependent on female subordination. As Dalit women are oppressed, exploited by both caste system and patriarchy, in their lives, patriarchy is formed in two forms-that of 'upper castes' and of their own community men. They are thrice alienated on the basis of caste, class and gender. The trauma of Dalit women is that they are treated as the oppressed among 'the oppressed'. Women have always been considered as marginalized human beings in the patriarchal society. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in the society: it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine." (Beauvoir, 249) The above statement itself states the dominance of patriarchy to make a woman an object of second sex. One is not born a woman but becomes a woman.
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