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Item Female Bonding as a Form of Resistance: A Study into Sarif’s Movie The World Unseen(Department of English, 2011) Koirala, ChetanaShamim Sarif’s movieThe World Unseenis about the scenarioof female experiencesof South Africa during 1950.It deals withthe questof a characterfor personal freedom in the racist and sexist culture of apartheidinSouth Africa.The storyis built upon the ground of the hierarchical and dichotomous relation of center- margin, dominant and dominated.The characters like Miriam, Amina, Madeline etc. are in the pursuit of the personal freedom as the patriarchal and racial oppression makes theirluck in the society. The characters are on the verge of losing dignity as human being; theystruggle to make their survival.Following the lead of the feminist critics like Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker,bell hooks, Michele Wallace etc,the research demonstrates that the female bonding asthe soothing balmto their suffering. Whenthe unfair and oppressivesystem in its extreme represses the marginalized groupthat is female and other social groups like the blacks, female tie as a resisting force moves up asthe only solution.Female bonding protests against racial and patriarchal repressions rejecting all the norms and conventions of male based society.Item A Female Resistance Against Patriarchy in Defoe's Moll Flanders(Department of English, 2014) Poudel, DeependraThis project focuses on a Female Resistance against Patriarchy in Defoe’s Moll Flanders. While analyzing his novel through the feminist perspective particularly Simone de Beauvoir, the major character, Moll Flanders seems to be very determined to resist patriarchal norms and values. She challenges patriarchy with her male like activities. She grows up as an orphan but with strong determination. She gets shelter on the service given by old nurse. She refuses to be servant in the house of a rich family. She makes the choice of living on her own rather than by serving the rich people. She decides to be gentle and independent woman. She gets married to more than five men but does not give up her goal of being a gentle woman. Finally, she involves herself in a criminal world and thrilling activities. Her vises actions bracket the male assumption. Finally she gets her goal of being independent. She lives happy a life at her later days.Item Female Resistance in Pygmalion(Department of English, 2006) Sharma, Til KumariThe main purpose of this thesis "Female Resistance" creates the identity of female world. G.B. Shaw'sPygmalionis defined by the researcher as, the text which is useful to bring the female existence. It has included four chapters. From the very beginning to end, the readers find the thematic perspective of woman world. The aim of this thesis is to create conscious mind of every female in this post- modern era.Item Female Resistance in Taslima Nasrin‟s French Lover(Faculty of English, 2017) Sigdel Parajuli, RanjitaThe major concern of this research is to explore the journey of the female protagonist Nilanjana of Taslima Nasrin‟s French Lover, who moves from the third world India to the first world France and experiences patriarchal domination. Whether it is in Indian society or in western society, her life more or less, goes under the same sort of situations of patriarchy. She breaks up with NRI to marry Benoir hoping that her French lover is open minded than her Indian mate. Opposite to her expectation, she ultimately becomes an object of sex rather than an independent woman in both patriarchal societies. Her identity or spirit is forced to be dependent both in her own native world as well as in supposedly a free Western world. This study not only exposes the obvious exploitation and domination upon women in patriarchal society, but also this research critically analyzes Nila‟s resistance. Nila is the representative character of „new women,‟ who oppose the entire hitherto existing patriarchal ethos vehemently. The researcher examines the text from the third world feministic perspective.Item Female Resistance to Patriarchy:A Character Study of Astha in Manju Kapur's A Married Woman(Department of English, 2012) Jha, Rabindra KumarThis dissertation explores the protagonist; Astha is suffered and victimized by the typical Indian society under Hinduism in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman. The Patriarchal rules and regulations maintained by the society are gendered biased, which leads to the suppression and objectification of women. In A Married Woman, Astha is objectified as socially excluded like other women in society despite her innocent behavior. Females are treated by the society nothing more than the child producing machines, which benefits male to fulfill their interests, but the females are in opposition to it which later on, is proved by the character Astha that marriage is a kind of suppression and subjugation against woman.Item Female Subjection and Protest in Jaspreet Singh’s Chef(Department of English, 2011) Baral, BharatChef, a historical novel by Jaspreet Singh has its roots anchored in the patriarchal society. This research in Chef explains the prevalent domination of females and examines the uprising tone of protest and sense of resistance against of patriarchal Indian society during the time of partition violence and Kashmir conflict, especially by the female characters Rubiya and Irem. It studies the passivity and subjugation of females as well as the emerging rebellious and dominant role of conscious female characters. Rubiya and Irem have proved themselves as the rebellious figure through their radical action, which is strong challenge to the patriarchal custodians.Item Passion for Art as a Means of Resistance in Amirrezvani's Blood of Flowers(Department of English, 2014) Lamichhane, SumitraAnita Amirrezvani’s Blood of Flowers revolves around the issue of female resistance by foregrounding the rebellious and revolutionary spirit of the major character. The protagonist disrupts and subverts patriarchal norms and values, rules and regulations. In this novel, a fourteen years old Muslim girl’s acts of learning carpet making from her uncle, reading and writing from her friend Naheed, lifting off her veil while walking in an open market place without caring the passerby can be taken as some examples of her rebellion against patriarchal ideology. By foregrounding the trials and tribulations of the unnamed narrator, the fourteen years old Muslim girl who is the protagonist of the novel, the novelist valorizes her voice against sigheh, a three months marriage contract, a tradition of Muslim society. In sigheh, a man has to pay certain amount of money before starting their temporary married life. Even though the narrator is forced by her parents to accept it for the sake of money without showing any concern about her dream and desire, the narrator revolts against it and ends the marriage contract. The courageous acts pave the narrator to achieve economic independence, self-worth, and identity and help the narrator to dismantle and subvert the patriarchal ideology. Thus, to probe into the issue of her rebellion against patriarchal ideology, particularly in Muslim society is the major contention of this research.Item Politics of Male Representation and Female Resistance in Burmese Days(Faculty of English, 2013) Pokhrel, BhagawatiThis thesis deals with female resistance against male and patriarchal domination in Orwell's Burmese Days.The novel also presentsdevasting picture of both domestic corruption and British Colonial rule, where imperial forces dominate the native people as interesting but inferior. But the focus of this thesis is on the conflict between male and female characters and love-hate relations between them. I have used politics of male representation and female resistance as critical tool to analyze the text. Information has been collected through various resources including published books, essays and article as well as website reviews. This fiction displays many instances of dominating mentality of characters who take females as weak, inferior, child-like and submissive characters. In the fiction male characters U Po Kyin, Mr. Flory and Mr. Verrall are shown as blind followers of patriarchal ideology who tend to dominate and confine women in one way or the other. However they are counterattacked by female characters eventually. So the love-hate relationship between males and females is well projected. The study concludes that even as women are initially shown as completely servile and subordinated towards the male, they ultimately resist and get victory over male domination.