The paper focuses on gender war against accepted social and literary hierarchy. Weldon's protagonist Ruth is invested with untold powers of evil that liberates her to exercise choice even in matters of desire and sexuality. She refuses to fall into the collective identity of wife, mother or daughter, rejecting the either/ or criteria for feminine identity. Her resolute psychological/physical remaking of her nature questions the accepted and internalized cultural representation of women. Her apocalyptic rebirth challenges the very notions of 'good' and 'evil'. In spite of her evil Ruth equates herself to Christ in her endeavor to liberate women. Weldon subverts traditional myth of evil to give it a more positive coloring