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Item 2017 Trade Finance Gaps, Growth, and Jobs Survey(2017-09) ADB; DiCaprio, Alisa; Kim, Kijin; Beck, StevenItem Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Organic Agriculture: Empowering Poor Women to Build the Future(2017-11) ADB; Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Gregorio, ElsbethItem Aency in Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen(Department of English, 2018) Siwakoti, SalinaAnalyzing Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen(2011), the present research claims that agency plays a vital role in shaping and articulating choices of the people even in the most uneven of the times like the war. Making a detailed study of two of the characters in the context of Iraqi war, this paper attempts to see the ways in which their choices arenegotiated in the critical time. Kate is an American soldier in the prisonguardguard. Kate who became friend withs Naema, an Iraqui medical science student.This study focuses on the way people face their bad times during the war. It shows the consequences of war and their effect in the individuality of people involved in it.Benedict presents the real picture of war and its consequence spenalty. By applying the theories of inner psychology as developed by John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Charles Taylor, this study presents approaches Kate and Naema as the major characters who assert them selves amid the war. Key words: Agency, Free Will, War and Gender, Iraqi War, Arab Women, ChoiceItem Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Cartoon(Department of English, 2006) Shrestha, Laxman PrasadCartoon is one of the strongest pragmatic genres of art that employs lines and wordsas its medium. With the help of lines and words, it expresses a unique form of aesthetics and pragmatics. Cartoon is a form ofperformingart which dramatizes in minuscule form the weaknesses and necessities of a society like the different genres of literature and paintings. Sometimes, its method of projecting a message is different from those of other genres. That is why, cartoon is a unique art. It has the inherent power to express the great political and social dramas in very concise forms. Generally, cartoonists use typical characters who are the voyeurs of the ups and downs. The characters who are depicted in cartoon come from the society from where they take their origin. Though the tendency of drawing cartoon has a very long history, it acquires its momentum in the national contents. For example only after the restoration of democracy in 1990 and 2006. Now cartoon has become a dominantform that spreads its message up to the audience through different mediums such as T.V., Radio, Newspapers and so on.Item Allo Value Chain from Gender Prospective(Central Department of Rural Development Tribhuvan Univeristy, Kathmandu, 2016-04) LAMICHHANE, SHARADAGender responsive and socially inclusive value chain development is progressively realized for sustainable economic growth of Nepal. The thesis is designed to analyze the social dimension and gender perspective in relation to value chain analysis and development of Allo subsector in Myagdi district. Using qualitative research approach, the thesis presented Allo Value chain from gender prospective and analyzed the social dimension and gender perspective in relation to value chain of Allo subsector in Myagdi district. The study had two major objectives. The first one was to prepare gender sensitive value chain map of Allo. Secondly it aimed to conduct gender analysis with respects to division of labor, access and control over resources and benefits, level of participation in decision making, power relations and empowerment level in Allo value chain. Qualitative research tools, such as two Focus Group Discussions, 23 semi structure interviews, 15 Key Informant Interviews and field observation were carried out during May 2015 to June 2015 to collect primary data. Secondary data also collected from relevant sources. Data were analyzed using Miles and Huberman framework's to analyze qualitative data. The research finding shows that indigenous women are the main actors of the Allo value chain in Myagdi. Out of all actors, nearly 93 percent are women, 72 percent Janjati and 20 percent are Dalit. About 95 percent of the actors belong to Disadvantage Group (DAG). Women disadvantage people's involvement is significantly higher in lower level of the value chain such as harvesting, primary processing, Yarn producing and weaving whereas men's involvement significantly high in trading (village level as well as in district level trading). Out of all traders women's proportion is 43 percent in village level and 38 percent district in district level. The lower level of value addition is tedious, labor intensive, consume lots of time. Therefore, there is no incentive for well off people to get involved. It is found that disadvantage groups have few other opportunities to make cash income, the women and disadvantage group devote their time in Allo processing. The commercial production of Allo product is virtually exists in Myagdi district. There is no controlled over resources by certain group of people. The resource is jointly control by the all users of Community Forest User Group. The research found vii that money flow is not equally distributed among actors and is not based on how much of cost is adding to develop the product. Lack of market information, low bargaining power and access to finance prevents women getting into trading business. It is found that decision regarding Allo plant collection is made by the male and female jointly in informal meeting. Social as well as economic empowerment has been observed in women and disadvantage group due to economic benefit of locally available resources, technical skill training, interlinked with the marketing channel. The main weaknesses in the value chain are poorly organized collection and the rudimentary methods of fiber extraction, and spinning which leads to low quality of yarn. Similarly, there is lack of product diversification, and variety in terms of designs. The study comes up with few recommendations. The critical factor seems the need to upgrade the quality of processed fiber and yarn using improved methods and equipment. Integrating women producers into the supply chain of the members of fair trade would benefit from their extensive experience on new product development, and export of handicraft items to the overseas markets.Item Armenia Country Gender Assessment(2019-12) ADBItem Asian Development Review Volume 35, Number 1—copublished with MIT Press(2018-03) ADB; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Yoshino, NaoyukiItem Azerbaijan Country Gender Assessment(2019-12) ADBItem COVID-19 Is No Excuse to Regress on Gender Equality(2020-11) Cyn-Young Park; Ancilla Marie InocencioItem Critique of Conventional Masculinity in Tawfiq Al- Hakim’s The Song of Death(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Upadhyay, Rita KumariThis thesis is a critique of conventional masculinity in Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s The Song of Death being based on gender studies. The research presents Hakim’s challenge to the masculinity especially in Arabian Islamic culture that is guided by revengeful motive of mother. Tawfiq was born in 1898 in a wealthy Egyptian family of Alexandria. He studied law in Cairo, graduated in 1925 and before died in 1987 translated and written so many articles, plays and books. Ahl al-Kahf, One Thousand and One Nights and ISIS are his exemplary plays. Being woman, Asakir is guided by the patriarchal motif of revenge i.e. eye for an eye. It is Asakir, a widow who ironically thinks that version of masculinity has to be preserved by her in order to do so she makes her son Ilwan take revenge of her father’s murderer but in vain. Ilwan is reflected as one of the modernists guided by social norms, decorum’s and laws. In order to critique the conventional masculinity the research makes use of theoretical insights of Judith Butler, Judith Halberstam and some more ideas of Glover and Cora Kaplan. Finally the research concludes that Hakim is critical of conventional masculinity. The mother is presented as a strong advocator of masculinity but her failure at the end of the play ironically displays the implacability of gender based roles in modern society like that of Cairo. Key Words: Gender, Masculinity, Tradition, Islamic culture, conflict, gender role.Item Culture and Gender in Buffalo Milk Production: A Case Study of Bishaltar Village in Dhading(Department of Anthropology, 2008) Maharjan, ReenaNot AvailableItem Deconstructing Heterosexual Normativity in Laxmi Narayan Tripathi’s Me Hijra, Me Laxmi(Central Department of English, 2019) Chand, Bhagirathiavailable with full textItem Desire, Repression and Multiple Sexualities in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love(Department of English, 2022) Roka, BandanaThis thesis deals with the exploration of repressed desires from the perspective of Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender in Women in Love by D.H.Lawrence. This research questions in the thesis about how the gender is undone in the society and how gender is constructed. This thesis shows the homosexual men and the breakdown of the conventional rules and regulation made by the society. Maincharacters of the novel shows their struggle for the sexual drive, while they are not fully satisfied with their sex partners. While, Rupert and Birkin are homosexual, they fall in love for each other but they could not express feelings freely just because of the fear of the abandonment by the society. And Lawrence raisesthe question of visible alliances between the sexes, where the position of power and dominance often is not fixed but is negotiable and constantly in the process of revision. My thesis examines Lawrence’s experimentation with definitions and boundaries of public and private gender roles. It investigatesthe struggle of the Birkin and Gerald in their life by overcoming against all the homosexual’s problems in a traditional society. They did not want to show their feelings in front of the society, instead they hide their homosexual personality. Keywords: Homosexuality, gender, desires, sex, suffering, emotion.Item Differential in Education Between Girls and Boys Inpun Magar Community of Pokhara(Department of Sociology, 2008) Magar, Pritam Raj Punnot availableItem Dismantling Conventional Gender and Sexuality: Lesbianism inWritten on the Bodyby Jeanette Winterson(Central Department of English, 2014) Chand, RekhaThisresearchentitled “Dismantling Conventional Gender and Sexuality: Lesbianism inWritten on the Bodyby Jeanette Winterson”problematizes and redefinesthe concept of gender and sexualitycreated by hetero-patriarchal discourse of western metaphysicsthereby blurring the strict boundary between male and female based on binary oppositionsthat createdichotomy and hierarchy betweenthemand openingup theother alternativesas lesbian, transsexual and bi-sexual relationships rejected and dejected by the western thought.Deconstructing and destabilizing gender and sexuality,Written on the Bodydramatizes a lesbian love story betweenthe genderless, nameless and ageless narrator and Louise. It subverts and deconstructs the male-supporting patriarchal and heterosexual discourse thereby reconstructing the stereotypical feminine attributes.Thus, in this research, the traditional adherence to heterosexuality is revisited in post-feminist advocacy of genderlessnarratorin order to challenge and subvert the binary opposition between male and female thereby critiquing and deconstructing the traditional notion of gender and sexuality.Item Dismantling of Binary Oppositions of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in J.M Coetzee’sDisgrace(Department of English, 2008) Chhetri, Til BahadurThe present study is a deconsturctive reading of John Maxwell Coetzee's novel Disgrace. This research exhibits how J.M. Coetzee'sDisgracedismantles the binaries of race, class, gender and sexuality and puts the privileged ones under erasure. In the novel, focalizer cum narrator, David--white, male, ex-colonizer and professor of the so-called higher class is unable to represent marginalized characters. David, a fixed internal focalizer cum protagonist is presented ironically without any authorial remarks by the author. The narrative on the surface level turns opposite when we go to the deeper level because of the focalizer's ignorance about race, class, gender and sexuality though he pretends to have knowledge about these issues. So, the proper understanding of this novel demands skeptical deconstructive study. Until and unless deconstructionist approach is deployed, there is the possibility of misinterpretation of marginalized.