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Item Body and Gender Performativity in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye(Central Department of English, 2019) Chemjong, DevikaThis thesis is an analysis of Margaret Atwood’s novel Cat’s Eye based on the idea of gender identity as performance. This research focuses on social construction of power, femininity and gender roles. The central character of the novel, Elaine Risley demonstares the gender roles assigned to her through dress code and symbolism. Using Judith Butler’s theory where everyday action, speech, utterances, gestures and representations, dress codes and behaviors produce what is perceived as an essential masculine and feminine. Elaine rejects the conventional notion of gender roles assigned by her family and society and succeeds in achieving her dream as an artist. Cat’s Eye accounts the journey of Elaine from a girl to mature woman who revolts against the societies values and proves herself as the capable one to live her life freely. In this journey, she encounters hardships but her perpetual courage and confidence takes her to desired life. Elaine, by rejecting the conventional notion of gender roles, proves that gender and identity are socially and culturally constructed. By performing gender not according to conventional behavior, the performer can change the social ideas about gender. Key Words: Gender, Identity, Performance, Conventional, Feminine.Item Gender Performativity in Virginia Woolf's Orlando(Department of English, 2007) Parajuli, Hom PrasadOrlando's masculine identity is constituted through the repetition of his courageous feats of swordsmanship,his princely manners and his behaviour of a nobleman which are endowed by charismatic personality of his handsome body, his social position at the top of stratification hierarchy and his access to the privileges and power of the state. By contrast, reiteration of the conventional feminine norms of bursting into tears on slight provocation, feeling shocked at odd events and smiling involuntarily in vanity consolidate Orlando's feminine identity during the process of her becoming a woman which is geared up by her dressing in a complete outfit of an Englishwoman. What counts after all is that subjected to gender, but subjectivated by gender, Orlando's gender identity emerges only within and as the matrix of gender relationsthemselves.