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Item Crossing patriarchal boundaries in Wharton's The house of Mirth(Department of English, 2023) Dahal, DurgaThe present paper analyzes an America novel entitled "Crossing Patriarchal Boundaries in Wharton's The House of Mirth " authored by prominent American Novelist, Wharton. It is a social and political motion that defends women's privileges primarily based totally on femininity egalitarianism. It covers the whole thing from social and political to monetary spheres. In fact, feminist campaigns had been an essential part of the records of women's identity. Wharton's The House of Mirth indicates characters' audaciousness and vitality in every activity. In the play, females are engaged efficient works. They are shown as constructive characters. They are energetic at the same time as men are passive. There is the reversal of conventional masculinity function concept. The thesis mainly studies Wharton's, protagonist Lily's and her ambitious friends. All lady characters do not limit with traditional the gender roles which have been imposed via way of means of patriarchy. Being a lady playwright, Edith respects her lady protagonists. She places her female protagonist in productive works. The novel is set in 20th-century American society. By applying theory of the feminism in the novel, the research concludes with the findings that if females cross patriarchal limitation, they also can do far better in the society and nation. Key Words: Femininity, masculinity, gender roles, patriarchal limitation, conventional.Item Gender Role as Performance in GhanashyamKhadka’sNirvana(Department of English, 2021) Thapa, SushmaThis research analyzes Ghanashyam Khadka’s novel Nirvana from the perspective of gender role as performance and female masculinity. It examines the social construction of power, femininity and gender roles corresponding between sex and gender identity. The characters show their performances through masculinity and challenge the conventional gender roles. The major thrust of this research is to examine how female characters have challenged the stereotypical patriarchal system where women are tagged as inferior, feminine, and fragile. In addition, it also analyzes how female characters establish their identities possessing confidence, assertiveness, and independence. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender perform ativity where everyday action, gestures and representation, and behaviors challenge the prescriptive and proscriptive approaches of sex, sexuality, and gender. In addition,masculinity is exhibited through the perspective of Judith Halberstam’s theoretical concept of Female Masculinity, where female characters Dipti, Monica, Savita, and Aaryaa act like male characters and establish their identities.Finally the analysis proves that the novelistis against the imposition of gender roles and identities by patriarchal society. Also, this research emphasizes how a woman can perform like a man. It also suggests that masculinity is not the sole property of male. Masculinity is the social position that can be practiced in an individual way. Keywords: Gender performativity, Female Masculinity, Femininity, AgencyItem Marginalization of Women in Hemingway’sMen Without Women(Department of English, 2009) Adhikari, MadhusudanThe present dissertationexploresHemingway’s depiction of his female characters in contrast to the image of his macho male characters. Hemingway’sMen Without Womendevelops an image of masculinity that is constructed and associated with the notion of strength. On the other hand,his female characters are depicted in terms of stereotypical biological characteristics. The common theme thatis found in most of the stories inMen Without Womentends to highlight latent misogynism of Hemingway.Item Representation of the Male Body in Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing(Central Department of English, 2010-08) Lo, Prabin KumarThis research on Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950) examines how masculinity renders females powerless. In the novel, Lessing’s protagonist, Mary Turner’s desire for sex is met with disgust when she discovers that her husband, Dick lacks virility, by implication he possesses weaker body than herself. So, she gets attracted to her black servant Moses. Her attraction to Moses embodies the power of a virile masculinity, which has made women powerless. So, this thesis argues that Lessing’s The Grass is Singing privileges the identification of power with heterosexual masculinity, which is manifested through the male body because the dynamics of the triangular relationship involving Mary, Dick and Moses is one that prioritizes gendered relations of power – a relationship in which Mary is rendered powerless.Item Subversion of Gender Roles in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories(Department of English, 2019) Baral, RekhaThis thesis examines how Angela Carter redefines prevailing conventional notions of femininity in her selected stories fromThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories(1990).In male dominated society female are presented as weak, emotional, submissive, followerof male where as male are presented as strong, bold, rational and warrior.ButAngela Carter in these stories challenges those traditional notions and presents female character as strong and bold who possess the so-called masculine traits to take up challenges. This study borrows theoretical concepts of Judith Butler who proposes that gender is a socially/culturally constructed category and it can therefore be changed.Item Valorization of Femininity in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake(Department of English, 2016) Parajuli, SonuThis research delves into the issue of the challenge to the patriarchal status quo in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. Besides, it explores the idea of gender identity as social and cultural product. Since gender identity is all about performance learned through discourse, the person of either gender can be both feminine and masculine, irrespective of their sex. This is more prominently brought up in the novel through the characters of Oryx and Jimmy/Snowman. By presenting the division of such traits within the characters, this research shows feminine qualities in the world as important as masculine, as they are important part of human nature. Hence, the sole concern of this thesis is to launch the ground breaking theme of importance of femininity; femininity not essential being of femaleness, rather the identity can be displayed by males also. Focusing upon the inequality in society, society where femininity is considered to be weak and of no importance, this thesis appeals for a change of insight to look upon femininity, often overlooked as a problem to the society, rather is of equal importance as masculinity.