Voicing The Silenced: Care Ethics And Intersectional Identity In The Feminist Reimaginings Of Jaya And Sita
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper presents a comparative study of care ethics and Intersectionality in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence (1988) and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Forest of Enchantments (2019). Both novels explore the emotional and moral dimensions of caregiving within patriarchal contexts. Sita’s roles as daughter, wife, and mother in The Forest of Enchantments reveal the undervaluation of care labor and the ethical weight of empathy and compassion. In contrast, That Long Silence portrays Jaya’s internal conflict between personal aspirations and traditional caregiving expectations, exposing the psychological toll of gendered roles. By applying Intersectionality, this study examines how the protagonists’ identities shaped by gender, class, and familial roles inform their caregiving experiences. Care ethics provides a lens to understand the relational and moral significance of their actions. Through this dual framework, the paper highlights how both authors challenge patriarchal norms and advocate for a deeper recognition of care labor and women’s resilience in literature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.049 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".