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Item An Exploration of Protest Against Female Subjugation in Charlotte Bronte's The Professor(Department of English, 2012) Pun, Indra BahadurThis research work is a study on Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor a novel that projects dynamic and courageous women as resisting the traditional masculine roles, based on conventional patriarchal ideology. Charlotte Bronte has demonstrated the strong women who are versatile with daring and revolutionary spirits against the ideology of patriarchal society. In addition to this, their extramarital affairs, negligence of social prohibition, established of their own identity and having mortally offend against powerful males, exploring in different parts in search of job and being the head minister of the school are some of the evidence which constructs how has the traditional masculine roles been challenged. The patriarchal ideology is operating as the hegemony, which is the internalized concept of man as superior and women as inferior. So, to deconstruct it, women consciousness and their resisting activities and behaviors are highly advocated in the novel by portraying strong women characters, Mrs. Crimsworth, Zoraid Reuter, and Francis Evan Henri. They are rebellious women who seek to subvert the male hegemonic supremacy existing in the society. They are the stream of freedom and women’s liberation; they also encourage all the women towards their path of liberation and autonomous identity. Thus, they are the symbolic representation of feminine strength and power.Item Passion for Art as a Means of Resistance in Amirrezvani's Blood of Flowers(Department of English, 2014) Lamichhane, SumitraAnita Amirrezvani’s Blood of Flowers revolves around the issue of female resistance by foregrounding the rebellious and revolutionary spirit of the major character. The protagonist disrupts and subverts patriarchal norms and values, rules and regulations. In this novel, a fourteen years old Muslim girl’s acts of learning carpet making from her uncle, reading and writing from her friend Naheed, lifting off her veil while walking in an open market place without caring the passerby can be taken as some examples of her rebellion against patriarchal ideology. By foregrounding the trials and tribulations of the unnamed narrator, the fourteen years old Muslim girl who is the protagonist of the novel, the novelist valorizes her voice against sigheh, a three months marriage contract, a tradition of Muslim society. In sigheh, a man has to pay certain amount of money before starting their temporary married life. Even though the narrator is forced by her parents to accept it for the sake of money without showing any concern about her dream and desire, the narrator revolts against it and ends the marriage contract. The courageous acts pave the narrator to achieve economic independence, self-worth, and identity and help the narrator to dismantle and subvert the patriarchal ideology. Thus, to probe into the issue of her rebellion against patriarchal ideology, particularly in Muslim society is the major contention of this research.Item Quest for autonomy in mortenson and Relin’s Three Cups of Tea(Department of English, 2012) Chaudhary, Jagadish PrasadThis thesis deals with the subalterns’ suffering and resistance to patriarchal ideology in Greg Mortenson’s and David Oliver Relin’s Three Cups of Tea. In the novel, many characters are entirely submissive and at the same time, there are some other characters who are hegemonized initially but later on they get ready to struggle and resist against oppressors. Rokhia, Tara Bishop, Wazir men and women as well as other peasant characters are repressed by patriarchy and Pakistani government. The major characters such as Greg Mortenson, Tahira, Jahan and other subaltern people are initially suppressed and prejudiced for their education by patriarchy and rigid Muslim leaders. However, they come to face and struggle against the domination and exploitation. Finally, they come to secure their position and right as autonomous members in their society. They have not only liberated themselves but are also encouraging other subaltern characters to be aware of their dignified and sustainable life.Item Resistance through Female Bonding in J.K.Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy(Department of English, 2017) Chapagai, Kishor PrasadThis research presents how female bonding appears to be a means of resistance in J.K. Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy. Female bonding is a theoretical concept developed by critics like Nancy Chodorow, Chris Beardsly, Judith Butler, and Alberto Godenzi. Female bonding is common resemblance of females to share sympathy and empathy with each other to resist patriarchy. In The Casual Vacancy, the first person narrator Patrica narrates several difficulties of her life. Patrica comes from a decent family of moderate income who is forced to work as a governess at the house of elites. Her husband constantly finds fault in her and criticizes her infertility. He is callous and insensitive towards his wife. This provides an excuse for her husband to cheat on Patrica, to divorce her, and to remarry with Anna. Patrica lives with her university friend, Sukhvindar, after she broke up with her husband. Sukhvindar stands in the difficulties of Patrica as a strong pillar. All female characters in the novel are victim of patriarchal ideology; either they are poor or rich. However, Sukhvindar helps Patrica and Patrica helps her mother in her difficulties. Females have bonding to resist patriarchal ideology.Item Return of the Repressed: A Gothic Reading of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw(Department of English, 2007) Subedi, GobindHenry James'sThe Turn of the Screw(1898) is a psycho-gothic study in the context of high Victorian culture of imperial domination and subordination of women. The young governess in the novella becomes the victim of the oppression of patriarchal ideologyof that time, which makes her sexually repressed. Her sexual desires traumatize her and she frequently sees the ghosts of her employer's valet. Thus, the study highlights the 19 th century conception of identity of women. The abuse of power that enabled domination in imperial and gender relations were paid for at a terrible cost.The Turn of the Screwseems to be about the return of the oppressed as well as the repressed.Item Search for Authentic Female Space in C. B. Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart(Department of English, 2008) Sharma, PramilaDivakaruni illustrates the female space in her novel Sister of My Heart by challenging the patriarchal code and conduct as well as the literary tradition which locate men at centre and female a margin. The absence of male characters is the main focus of this research. Although the protagonists, Sudha and Anju, reject the patriarchal support, their socio-economic background is strong. Moreover, the writer shows that female-female relationship is necessary to challenge the patriarchal ideology. Their social and economic position allows them to transcend the restrictive demands of traditional gender notion that might eventually restrict them to fulfill the roles of wife and mother. As a result, they are privileged to be able to concentrate on their career. Divakaruni, therefore, insists on the significance of the authentic female voice for all female not only to resist the effects of patriarchal norms and values but also to create a culture in which female have equal economic, social and political rights with men.Item Stultified Tony : A Study of Gender Politics in Mann's Buddenbrooks(Department of English, 2007) Panth, Surya ManiMann'sBuddenbrookspresents the stultifying social codes and gender politics in the nineteenth century German middle class society. It is the reality of male-dominated society that discrimination against women is lodged deep in the subconscious of men and women as well as in the social structure in such a way that it creates one of the greatest difficulties to fight because it grips women from within and without. Patriarchal norms and values have stultified the mind of Tony, the female protagonist, as a result she is unable to think and react against domination and exploitation exerted upon her.Item Transition and Transformation of Gendered Subaltern in Manju Kapur's A Married Woman(Department of English, 2017) Hamal, BinduThis study on Manju Kapur's A Married Woman excavates the plight of subaltern women. It raises the issue of the exploitation and domination ofAstha, a married woman by patriarchyin India. Although Astha seems to be hegemonized by patriarchal ideologyat the beginning and middle of the novel, towards the middle and end of the novel, she becomes stronger and does things using her own discretion because she writes and paints organizing exhibition on her own.Also, she becomes economically strong.Ultimately, Astha does not depend upon others for her agency or voice to be represented.In this way,Astha'semergenceas a resistant and strong woman reflects a subaltern woman's transition and transformation.