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Women, in this hypothetical social system, have always been suppressed undervalued and depreciated under the male-chauvinistic assumption. The current research paper reflects umpteen feminist issues which are raised in the illustrations novels 'Cry, the Peacock' and 'Where shall we go this summer?' of Anita Desai. She is one of the most effective Indian feminist novelists, writes in English sketching the femme fatale characters like Maya and Sita of the above-mentioned novels, whose feminist message to substantiate is the focal point of this paper. She is made several conscious and persistent efforts in order to sectionalize a good deal of quandaries of these forthcoming female characters Maya and Sita. In India, the works of the female writers have invariably been looked down by this male-dominated society as their writings were called as 'Kitchen Literature' owing to the reason they were supposed to write only about their firsthand experience inside the four walls of their domain. In the past, female writers had to toil hard even to make their works acceptable such as with Anita Desai. With the beginning of the post-modern era, women started appearing for their prerogatives, dignity and equiformity against gender discrimination, traditional and conventional customs.