IMAGE OF A WOMAN IN CANDIDA

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Abstract "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage, or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."[i]Anaïs Nin Woman is an epitome of flesh and trade since the emergence of human civilization. Woman is seen as a commodity and an instrument to derive pleasure and satisfy the needs of man and a natural trained domestic care-taker of complex responsibilities at home and work. During Neolithic Era, woman was treated as an equal to man. She gathered food like grains, nuts, roots and lentils and men went for hunting, barely supporting women in the agricultural fields. She made pottery and grinding the corn were some of the daily activities apart from raising her children. In Bronze Age, woman was seen as a centre figure and making her husband realize her importance either in domesticity, financial or political matters other than her daily chores at home. During Iron Age, she was skilled and talented in making earthenware vessels, taking care of food, milking the cows, making bread and cheese and drying up meat and fish under the sun. Taking care of livestock was more important task for woman during this era. In medieval age, woman had to go through a difficult phase of life. She has no freedom because of high and powerful domination of man in the society. She becomes the property of her husband after marriage and is confined to giving birth to children and a male child was regarded important and demanding; so many young wives tried and spent most of their years in delivering a male heir. But medical facilities were very poor and many women died at a very young age in childbirths. She was just like an instrument being used by man since the evolution of human kind.