Reviewing Gender Specific Spatial Construction from the Women’s Perspective: An Analytical Study

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to examine the domestic space in Indian women’s gendered spaces in the domestic and the public arena. It is an attempt to understand the dynamics of strength and control in a non-gendered political space through which women’s agency in terms of mobility, utterance, desire, and identity is directed tangibly and intangibly. In this century there is much that will challenge the conventional view of the domestic space in Indian women’s perspective. It will redefine the views of space where the women stereotypes have been found to be belonging. The objective of the paper is to highlight and argue for a topography of domesticity in Indian and the developing world architecture through the thresholds and confinement experienced in traditionally ordained domestic spaces. This essay will use feminist spatial theory to examine how the subjectivity of women is mediated through spatial confinement. The author argues that the domestic space for Indian womenis a location that marks both physical confinement and the interiorization of psychology through surveillance. The politics of space is intertwined with the politics of gender, and it is through geographics of homes in India that patriarchy sustains itself unspoken and yet a heavy silence.