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It is an overall view of literature-vision of the cultural universe. Thus the study will throw light on some feministic elements like how feminism comes along way from power, politics to an understanding of cultural diversification. Feminism of late called womanism is a serious attempt to formulate the identity issues and find solutions to gender problems. Shashi Deshapande who reveals the process of self-awareness at work in female psyche and Toni Morrison as a ethnic cultural feminist celebrating the strength of black women against the heavy odds of racism, sexism and classicism. It is an attempt to analyse the basic bond that exists between men and women, parents and children and to know how the external circumstances also affect the mutualities. Further to focus the economic stress, political tension and the changes in the value system of society and to see how power imbalances due to gender in given culture and try to promote gender equality through this feminist criticism. Feminism has always meaning dependence of mind, spirit and body. The current study, based on Shashi Deshpande's and Toni Morrison's selected novels, deals with the complexities of man-woman relationships, particularly in the context of marriage, as well as the trauma of disturbed adolescence also show how carefully they expresses the frustration and disappointment of women, which they experience in their marital relationships. It implies that men and women must work together to create a mature and balanced gender relationship.