Marginalization of the female folk in Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man

Abstract

The discrimination of women is present outside and inside households. The patriarchal setup forces a woman to fuse her ‘self’ with that of a male member - be it the father, the husband, the brother or the son. Thus, the female is marginalised in a familial set up which is carried to the societal level. This paper aims to analyse this disparity in Dattani’s Dance Like a Man.