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Item Assertion of Self: A Feminist Study of Margaret Edson’s Wit(Faculty of English, 2010) Basnet, RamKumarNot availableItem Commodification of Female Body: A Study on Nepalese Pop Music Videos(Department of English, 2008) Chhetri, Ramkajee ThapaThis dissertation paper attempts to explore and examine critically the Nepalese pop music videos which display, objectify and reify the female body, through the presentation of female models as a commodity of romantic-sex-object,fetishizing their body so as to cater voyeuristic male gaze. Commercializing their glossy skin and representing their body as commodity, the pop music videos give contribution to the formation and continuation of capitalistic and patriarchal ideologies inwhich woman is nothing more than an object or commodity under the possession of male figures. In choreography or even in the shootings of the pop music videos, voyeurism, fetish impulses and male gaze function, thereby causing the commodification of female body. In the visualization and production of pop videos, the camera-angle posits the women characters as a thing to be gazed at and male characters as principle viewer with authoritative and omniscient power to peep, control, define and direct them who are detected and guided as per the will of male-figure. This thesis paper tries to examine the Nepalese pop videos with the theoretical possibilities of Gaze Theory and Marxist Feminism. The research, thus, initiates its steps to explicate how the voyeurism and fetishization under male gaze leads to the exploitation of female models, thereby causing the commodification of female body in the age of post-capitalism.Item Commodification of Love in Toni Morrison's Love(Department of English, 2010) Gupta, Dipendra KumarToni Morrison's Love portrays the female characters surrounding a single male Bill Cosey,who fascinates and even dominates them. They all love Cosey while alive and even after his death. But they use their love-commodify-to acquire the property, position and power of Cosey. Thus, the commodification of love is for the power which Cosey practiced upon them. The female characters Heed, Christine, May, Vida, L, Celestine and even Junior have seen the power and position of Cosey, and to inherit and poseit, they commodity their love. Here, the use and intention of commodification-or self-commodification-has positive effect and impact.Item Liberation Conscience in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street(Department of English, 2018) Bhetwal, AmritaThe main thrust of this thesis is to expose how the main protagonist, Esperanza is influenced by economic condition of the contemporary era. Conflict occurs in crisis and suppression. Since women are deprived from rights; right of property, rights of freedom, rights of decision making and all. Esperanza also faces various crises, difficulties and has inside and outside conflict, struggle to ride form suffocation that is given by patriarchal society. Throughout the novel, Esperanza seems to be aware of patriarchal codes and conducts. She deliberately rejects and fights against all the patriarchal norms and values descended since last many decades in Mexican-American society. She seeks freedom from poverty and from suppression of male. After realizing liberation is possible by changing the perception and emotional status, instead of changing place; she herself directly rejects marriage proposal and makes aware of Alicia not to get marriage rather continue her university level education which would become helpful living life with prosperity. She follows the way of Virginia Woolf as shown in A Room of One's Own; she also demands the house where she strictly prohibits the ownership of male. At last, she makes the writing as the way of liberation of Mexican-American women in American gender-based society.Item The Politics of Revolution:A Marxist Feminist Study of Maxim Gorky's Mother(Faculty of English, 2011) Magar, Jiban AleNot AvailableItem Subversion of Middle Class Sexuality in Deepa Mehta’s Fire(Central Department of English, 2010-05) Jaishi, Puspa RajThis research analyzes Mehta’s film Fire, which is well-known for its lesbianism. The study focuses on the assumptions of middle class sexuality so as to subvert them. By deriving insights from Marxist feminism, it proves how the female protagonists, Radha and Sita resort to lesbianism so as to challenge the heterosexuality, the ideal form of middle class sexuality, and thereby the middle class patriarchy.