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Item Failure of Androgyny in Woolf's Orlando(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012-10) Bhattarai, LaxmiCritics like Michael Rosenthal agree that Orlando offers a fictional ideal embodiment of the androgyny that Woolf exalts in A Room of One’s Own. However, this research argues that Woolf actually relies on stereotypical gender differences to critique the pitfalls of gender and sexual conditioning in Orlando, which reveals Woolf’s serious doubt about the potentiality of her own proposed state of androgyny. Orlando is unable to reach the ideal state of mental androgyny that Woolf exalts in A Room of One’s Own because of cultural and social conditioning. Pressures and expectations, both inner and outer, prevent Orlando from developing the androgynous mind that Woolf idealizes in A Room of One’s Own. In Orlando, Woolf does not depict an ideal androgyny but actually shows why androgyny is impossibleItem Problematization of Conventional Gender Roles in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast(Department of English, 2018) Vishowkarma, ShankarThis research focuses on Hemingway'sA Moveable Feastconcerning the issue of genderrelationship between man and woman. This research depicts the ideaof conventional gender rolesassociating Hemingway's affairs with the women while he was living in Paris. Hemingway has invariably pursued the explosion of the myth of masculinity by asserting the issues of gender identity and the source of his psychological conflicts. Androgyny, a key word in gender bending, implies the negation of a watertight system of binaries. Biography has thus not only pioneered the disruption of the writer as an icon of monolithic masculinity and allowed literacy criticism to read his texts as containing a plurality of crosscutting gender identities. A traditional gender role orientation emphasizes difference between men and women and assumes that each sex has a natural affinity to bring a change into someone's life. Key words: masculinity, feminists, androgyny, gendered, sexuality.Item Subversion of Conventional Gender Rolesin Ernest Hemingway's A Farwell to Arms(Department of English, 2017) Darlami, KalpanaHemingway's A Farewell to Arms questions traditional concept of male female gender distinction through the character Catherine Barkley's androgynous performance.As Judith Butler questions the very binary of traditional sex and gender by describing them as a cultural construct, Catherine rejects prevailing gender identity by not complying with the norms of gender roles. She does not take traditional concept of gender or femininity granted as she hates institution of marriage, submissiveness, domesticity and modesty, which were stereotypically followed and considered to be the attributes of good women at the time when the novel waswritten. Moreover, her masculine attitude towards sex, dress and hairstyle reflects ambiguity in gender and sexual identity there by subverting the traditional femininity. In this way, Catherine subverts the traditional concept of gender or femininity. KeyWords: Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms,Sex,Gender,Androgyny,Performance, Tradition.Item Subversion of Gender Roles through Androgynous Characteristics in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49(Department of English, 2017) Ghimire, Pharsu RamThe Crying of Lot 49, the protagonist offers idea of androgyny that Woolf exalts in A Room of One' Own (1929). However, this paper argues that Thomas Pynchon does not rely on stereotypical gender differences and critiques the pitfall of gender and sexual condition in The Crying of Lot 49. Oedipa Maas is anandrogynous character and she subverts gender roles. Pynchon depicts an idea of androgyny throughout the protagonist acts. She does heroic adventure in post twentieth century by challenging traditional gender roles and creating new gender as androgynous. Protagonist does not end her journey even in adventure,it is her continuation to her objective,and emerges as the new hero by dismantling gender role.The present research tries to look at the novel from the perspective of Pynchon’s employment of unconventional portrait of women, primarily Oedipa Maas, as an agent, an independent being and a freedom seeker. Herstruggleis portrayed through her unstoppable struggle and an internal passion for complete independence and individual identity.She represents postmodern gender role which is changing. She departs from traditional gender roles and dismantles gender role. Her transgression from confine to free working, independent and heroic woman that makes her self-guided and her acts show societal change slowly and gradually.