Social Identity of Women: Pregnancy and Sexuality in Fay Weldon’s Puffball

Abstract

This article demonstrates Fay Weldon’s influence of biological and cultural identity of women femininity on female identity in his novel Puffball. Every woman assimilates towards her future maternal identity. A women’s desire on pregnancy has become a forcible one;because the patriarchal society has identifies childless women as sterile women. Weldon has shown how Liffey change from her immature position; she was twenty eight but her thing eighteen ant thing forever young, and cares about her tummy and her tiny breast. This article consist the impact of gender difference, reproductive and gender particularity in identity crisis as well as the role of socialization doctrine and discourse plays in thesociety.