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Item Female Masculinity in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow(Department of English, 2019) Moktan, SaritaThis research project associates Ursula, female protagonist of the novel The Rainbow reflecting her masculinity. Many feminist critics have perceived this novel as man-centered. In response to this analysis of the novel, the present research tries to look at the novel from the perspective of Judith Halberstam’s theoretical concept of Female Masculinity, especially Ursula as a masculine woman who acts like a man in the British society. Female masculinity is not an identity but site for identification where different identities can flourish. Masculine women possess confidence, assertiveness, and independence. Lawrence gives justice for women’s role by presenting Ursula as a new woman who seeks her individual identity in the conventional world. Through the reading of novel from as its theoretical tool, the research concludes that female can be as male and male can be like female. She acts like a man and that means she has masculine qualities. Lawrence portrays Ursula as a woman with masculinity because she can flourish different identities of her life. She plays role as independent woman, liberate woman, Lesbian woman, and new woman etc. She behaves like a tomboy who refuses to accept Victorian conventions of the society. So Ursula is a masculine woman rather than being feminine. This research emphasizes how a woman can perform like a man this suggests masculinity is not private property of male. Masculinity is social position that can be practice in an individual way. Masculinity is a social position that can be practice in an individual way. Keywords: Female Masculinity, Emancipation, femininity, Individualism, equalityItem Female Masculinity in Forster's Novel A Room with a View(Department of English, 2016) Rai, AmitaThe novel A Room with a View by E. M. Forster is about the female masculinity of the central female character Lucy Honey church. This novel moves around the protagonist Lucy Honey church who feels more comfortable behaving and looking masculine. She is attributed with masculine traits like reason, rebellion, power and potency, courage, combativeness, assertiveness and so on. She consists of a dream to live an independent and a dignified life full of happiness and bliss. She is assertive enough in nature who does not like to remain within the four walls of a house. She disobeys her family members' advice to get married and deliver children accomplishing her feminine gender roles expected by the society. Instead, she travels to the different countries for the sake of pleasure and recreation in the midst of repressed Edwardian society. Like males, she keeps multiple relationships one after another and indulges in lovemaking, chooses a socially degraded person George Emerson as her life partner and breaks off her engagement with the person of her family choice.Set in Italy and England, this novel is about both a romance and critique of English society at the beginning of the twentieth century as represented the protagonist by Lucy Honey church.Item Female Masculinity in Mukhtar Mai'sIn the Name of Honor(Department of English, 2018) Pokhrel, Ram KrishnaThis research argues that the experience of Mukhtar Mai's desire for social freedom reflects the problems of women in the contemporary period because of male authority’s misunderstanding in the memoir In the Name Of Honor. It examines the causes of female struggle from physical prospective. The research work highlights on the effects of struggles as woman’s social status and courage of female masculinity in the society.This research brings a concept of masculinity derived from Judith Butler, Cora Kaplan, to notice implication and valorize the condition of male femininity and female masculinity.Mai represents a social worker to help closely as women are ultimately presented as masculine character.Thus, the research shows heroic masculinity and bonds with society after being social worker.Item Female Masculinity in Patty Jenkins‟ Wonder Woman(Department of English Education, 2019) Rai, AlinaThis research, tries to analyze the subject matter of Female Masculinity in Patty Jenkins‟ Wonder Woman starred by Gal Gadot in the role of Diana. It basically shows the adventure and bravery of the central character Diana. It deals with female masculinity and how, it dismantles the traditional/stereotypical definition of masculinity. It analyses how female character like Diana come strong with masculine traits and establishes herself as a wonder woman in the world of men. Furthermore, it shows the Diana‟s journey from Themyscira to the real world for the very first time. It also examines how her journey plays an important role to shape her into a Wonder Woman from a mere princess. It unfolds how, Diana being a woman, hold a great responsibility of saving the humankind from the war and evil. She is rebellious in nature. She is powerful, bold, independent and determined, that is why she holds the central position in the battlefield among thousands of men. The cinematography, which consists of sound, camera, angle, light, setting, dialogue and other, highlights the adventure, bravery and boldness of Diana. It justifies the subject matter of female masculinity. The Tools that are carefully used to show the different aspects, remaining on the ground of subject matter. The presentation of the bold, strong, combative, tough and powerful nature of the protagonist Diana proves the female masculinity inherent in the movie represented by Diana. Thus, this research paper analyzes the subject matter of female masculinity. Moreover, this research tries to highlight how female masculinity as a new category of gender study signals a new understanding of masculine behavior and identification, and a new direction in the interdisciplinary scholarship.Item Female Masculinity in Sylvia Plath's Poetry(Department of English, 2009) Dahit, Prem BahadurThe present dissertation explores female masculinity in Sylvia Plath's poetry. As Plath is angry with patriarchy for driving women to neurosis by inflicting injustice and exploitation on them, she attributes masculinist traits to her female speakers so as to subvertthe patriarchal notions of looking at women.Sylvia Plath’s poems are pregnant with the idea of liberation of women from the limited territory of patriarchal sap. In her poetry, she poignantly expresses and exposes the age-old repression of women and allows a gust of rebellion to avert the male domination. In the partiarchally constructed society, most women have already internalized the stereotypical roles that mark their own marginalization. They are pretty complacent with their submissive roles, motherliness and domesticated, dull as well as nullified existence. They simply comply with what patriarchy wishes them to do. This is what Plath wants to subvert in her poetry.Item Unconventional Potrayal Of Androgynous Characters: A Sudy Of Andogyny In Hardy's For From The Madding Crowd(Department of English, 2020-09) Adhikari, Kamini KumariIn Far from the Madding Crowd, the major characters offer idea of androgyny that Woolf exalts in a Room of One' Own(1929). This paper argues that Hardy does not rely on stereotypical gender differences and critiques the pitfall of gender and sexual condition in Far from the Madding Crowd. Bathsheba Ever dene and Gabriel Oak are androgynous characters and they subvert conventional gender roles. Hardy depicts an idea of androgyny throughout the acts of the major characters. Through dismantling the gender roles, the major characters assist to show strength of feminine as well as masculine qualities and a call for harmony in society. The present research tries to look at the novel in the light of Hardy’s employment of unconventional portrait of man and woman, primarily Bathsheba and Gabriel, both as whole human being who seek balance as well as freedom.It relates to Hardy’s quest for wholeness. Both Gabriel and Bathsheba represent gender roles which are changing. They depart from traditional gender roles through dismantling gender roles. It also presents societal change slowly and gradually.Male and female represent two side of organic unity as two sexes in a single mind. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. In this way, Hardy destabilizes Victorian notions of ‘fixed gendered identity’ which is expressed according to the biological appearance of male and female and ‘superiority of masculinity’ that is male dominated society,through the portrayal of androgynous characters.