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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 Patriarchal Representation in Lil Bahadur Chhetri's Mountains Painted with Turmeric(2015-04) Tiwari, PrakashIn the patriarchal-feudal social scenario depicted in Chhetri’s Mountains Painted with Turmeric, women are subjected to control and domination. Such control and domination is sustained through the construction of such binaries: masculinity/femininity, reason/emotion, culture/nature, superior/inferior, subject/object, self/other, man/land, feudal/ serfs and so on. Women like Maina and Jhuma do not have access to land, property and decision-making, so they are controlled and dominated by male intervention. They are treated as commodity to be possessed and as instruments to carry out male purposes. Their condition is totally controlled by patriarchal norms and values, thereby being confined into domesticity occupying a subordinate position to men. Such oppression of woman operates under the ideological principle of patriarchal masculinity that seeks to control and dominate women.. Therefore, females like Maina and Jhuma are not only stereotypically represented but also hegemonically subordinated. The patriarchal ideology is inflicted upon them in such a way that they are rendered completely helpless and submissive.Item Patriarchal Representation in Lil Bahadur Chhetri's Mountains Painted with Turmeric(Department of English, 2015) Tiwari, PrakashIn the patriarchal-feudal social scenario depicted in Chhetri’s Mountains Painted with Turmeric, women are subjected to control and domination. Such control and domination is sustained through the construction of such binaries: masculinity/femininity, reason/emotion, culture/nature, superior/inferior, subject/object, self/other, man/land, feudal/ serfs and so on. Women like Maina and Jhuma do not have access to land, property and decision-making, so they are controlled and dominated by male intervention. They are treated as commodity to be possessed and as instruments to carry out male purposes. Their condition is totally controlled by patriarchal norms and values, thereby being confined into domesticity occupying a subordinate position to men. Such oppression of woman operates under the ideological principle of patriarchal masculinity that seeks to control and dominate women.. Therefore, females like Maina and Jhuma are not only stereotypically represented but also hegemonically subordinated. The patriarchal ideology is inflicted upon them in such a way that they are rendered completely helpless and submissive.Item Suppression: Women's Awareness in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughter(Faculty Arts in English, 2012-09) Sah, Binod KumarManju Kapur's Difficult Daughter portrays the women's struggle for independent identity in the 21st century. Virmati, the protagonist of the novel, represents all the females who are trying hard for establishing their free identity. This study has been focused at making a wide research of her different activities linking them to the females fight for freedom. The theoretical tool used to prove this research is 'feminism' To prove this tool, I have mentioned the ideas of different philosophers related to feminism, library consultancy, and teacher guidance as well as searching in Google. Virmati wants to continue her study in spite of her family's objection. Virmati tries to prove herself as modern or liberated woman. She does everything to prove that women are capable to take any decision of their life. In the course of higher study she goes to Lahore but she fell in love with married Professor. In the last, I have found in this novel that Virmati could not break the male Patriarchal norms and Values. Though she is a bold, strong willed, determined and action oriented revolutionary against her family as well as her society, she gets involved in a useless love, doubtful marriage and unwed Pregnancy. Virmati is being used. She dares to cross Patriarchal threshold but she has been caught into another world where her free spirit is curbed and she accepts compromise with family as well as society. She is a loser whose actions totally alienate her from her family and she fails to create a space for herself for which she had been desired since childhood. The thesis discusses how the society refuses to give the professional achievement of Virmati the respect, recognition and identity that come with marriage and motherhood. Kapur shows the problem of women in India.