Volume V Special Issue III August 2025

Name of Author : Dr. Lisa Pavithran

Title of the paper : En Soi to Pour Soi: An Existential Feminist Analysis of K. R. Meeras Achammakku Sambavichathu

Abstract: Gender is a social construct and it evolves through generations. Societies often have specific expectations about how men and women should behave, dress, and interact. Gender roles are an achieved status in a social environment. Traditional roles emphasize the role of women in home and family resulting in fewer women pursuing higher education or careers. Men oppress women and characterize them as the other or the second sex, according to Simone de Beauvoir. In The Second Sex, she explores the concept of womens liberation by contrasting the existentialist notions of poursoi and ensoi. She calls for women to transcend this limited state of immanence and embrace their own subjectivity, freedom and selfdetermination, moving from ensoi to poursoi beinginitself to beingforitself. K. R. Meeras Achammakku Sambavichathu is the story of a women who transgressed the traditional gender norms and moves on from immanence to permanence by embracing her creative selfexpression.

Keywords : gender, pour soi, en soi, immanence, permanence

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Page Number : 63-66