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Item Female Bonding in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help(Department of English, 2014) Lamichhane, KhagarajThe basic concern of this research is to explain how unity amidst Black women is a stepping stone in fighting against racial domination. Unities amidst Black women, who work as the maids in white families, have no option other than getting united for the sake of establishing equality and individual self-esteem. Black women like Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter have to face several hassles and hardship within the domestic world of the white ladies. From minor thing like using toilet to weekly pay, they are subjected to the serious hassles and hardships. In Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help, three major Black female characters help one another consistently. Eugenia Skeeter helps Aibileen, Minny and Constantine by publishing in Jackson League Daily those articles which directly deal with the harassment and segregation of Black women by their white employers. The perspective of female bonding, which lays emphasis on group identity and alliance amidst sisterhood in suffering, is the main theoretical window from which the growing alliance and unity amidst women are probed and examined critically. In this regard, it would be logically relevant to argue that female bonding is instrumental in putting an end to head of racist torture and patriarchal subjugation. In this case, this research appears as the brilliant case in point.Item Female Bonding in Kathryne Stockett's The Help(Department of English, 2017) Chettry, ParbotiThis research on Female Bonding in the novel The Help by Kathryne Stockett focuses on the relationship among black women. It aims to explore the theme of female bonding among the black women who work in the houses of whites in 1960s in Mississippi, Jackson in America. Strong bond among these working women can be seen throughout the novel. It is the crucial point that how the bond among black women helps them to cope with the racial and social pressure in the novel. Aibileen, Minny and other black women who work in the whites have to face many kinds of discriminatory practices there. So, they enhance their relationship within themselves. They meet talk and share their problems which help them to heal their burnings of domination. Skeeter also helps them writing a book which is against racial discrimination. They meet and help each other and get published the book finally which is the concrete evident of their bonding. Due to long term subjugation of the whites, black women have realized the importance of their bonding. They exclude male counterpart and share and support each other emotionally and materialistically. Thus, the bond among the black maids helps them to get rid of the tortures they receive from their mistress and from the patriarchal society.Item Female bonding in Lisa See's Shanghai Girls(Department of English, 2022) Sharma, MadhuThis research paperexamines Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls to highlight the bondingbetween two sisters Pearl and May and their struggle for selfhood and self-definition in a man’s world. In this process, this studyscrutinizes their search for strength in their woman-to-woman relationships, their common victimization and their shared identities.By taking insights about female solidarity as proposed by Simon De Beauvoir, Kate Millet and Nancy Chodorow, this research reflects on victimization the female protagonists go through and the bonding they develop to overcome the hardships. The research illustrates the strong relationship between women based on giving and receiving emotional,psychologicaland moral sharing and caring and nurturing each other. Keywords: silence, female bonding, freedom, patriarchal domination, self identityItem Female bonding in Natusu Kirino’s Out(Department of English, 2014) Bhusal, LaxmiThis research focuses on Nasuto Kirino’s novel Out, and deals with the issue of female bonding and solidarity. The novel rotates around the women characters and their activities to show how they come together to fight against patriarchal domination. Besides, the pain and frustration of four women characters, their suffering from various kinds of problems, like economic, social, familiar, and existential as well as gender inequality and domestic violence is the focus of the novel. In spite of their different backgrounds and problems, they come together and form a bond to fight against patriarchal excesses. Yayoi, is the female protagonist of the novel, on night her husband Kenji comes home heavily intoxicated and scolds and beats her. He gambles away all their savings. In the fit of anger Yayoi kills her husband. Then she seeks the help of her friends to dispose the crime. Her friends like Masako, Kuniko and Yoshie come together and help her to dispose the crime showing a sense of solidarity. Similarly, they help each other to solve their problems. The friendship becomes beneficial to overcome their difficulties. Thus, the novelist projects the idea that if women come together, they are collectively able to fight against patriarchal domination. In order to justify this claim, this research mobilizes the theoretical concepts of Bell Hooks, Elizabeth Able, Clenora Hudson Weems.Item Female Bonding: A Device to Resist the Patriarchal Domination in Bima Sarif's My Ancestor's House(Department of English, 2012) Shakya, RashmiMy Ancestor’s House is the memory play of several women. The present research explores how Muslim women are compelled to face domination, domestic violence and inhuman behavior in patriarchal society. Women of these communities are dominated due to the strict and conservative cultures. They become aware and conscious about their suppression, domination and torture. And they react against social system through female bonding. Female bonding is close personal relationship between and among women which is achieved through shared work. Sharif tries to resist patriarchy through female bonding. In the play, women like Bindia, Roona, Nazo play significant role for female bonding to work together for freedom, liberty and justice to their younger sister, Deedi. These women help each other by giving psychological and physical support but Deedi has to loose her life being the victim of patriarchy.Item Resistance through Female Bonding in J.K.Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy(Department of English, 2017) Chapagai, Kishor PrasadThis research presents how female bonding appears to be a means of resistance in J.K. Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy. Female bonding is a theoretical concept developed by critics like Nancy Chodorow, Chris Beardsly, Judith Butler, and Alberto Godenzi. Female bonding is common resemblance of females to share sympathy and empathy with each other to resist patriarchy. In The Casual Vacancy, the first person narrator Patrica narrates several difficulties of her life. Patrica comes from a decent family of moderate income who is forced to work as a governess at the house of elites. Her husband constantly finds fault in her and criticizes her infertility. He is callous and insensitive towards his wife. This provides an excuse for her husband to cheat on Patrica, to divorce her, and to remarry with Anna. Patrica lives with her university friend, Sukhvindar, after she broke up with her husband. Sukhvindar stands in the difficulties of Patrica as a strong pillar. All female characters in the novel are victim of patriarchal ideology; either they are poor or rich. However, Sukhvindar helps Patrica and Patrica helps her mother in her difficulties. Females have bonding to resist patriarchal ideology.