The chapter analyses the Bengali short story Dhouli by Mahasweta Debi from the gender perspective within the framework of feminist and postcolonial theories of literature and religion, namely A. Pratt, Ch.
T. Mohanty, G.
Ch. Spivak, L.
Irigaray, A. B.
Ulanov and others. The monography as a whole stems from the writings of Simone de Beauvoir.