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Item Domestic Violence Against Women from Dowry Perspective (An Assessment in Madheshi Community in Banke)(Department of Rural Development, 2006) Barnawal, NituThis study entitled” DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FROM DOWRY PERSPECTIVE” (AN ASSESSMENT IN MADHESHI COMMUNITY IN BANKE DISTRICT) was based on primary data collected in May, 2006. The main objective of the study is to analyze the existing situation of women and girls assess the existing dowry related violence in Madhise community in Banke District and the specific objectives are; to examine the socio- demographic backgrounds of the respondents, to examine and analyze the ways to accommodate for the reduction of the dowry related violence, and to hold the opinion regarding the dowry system reduction. For the purpose of the study, the researcher had applied the social science research methodology. The study was held on both exploratory and descriptive research design. The sources of data were both primary and secondary and the natures were both qualitative and quantitative. It is not possible to take all so out of them 40 HH were selected on a sample random basis for the study. The study was done on victim, adolescent girls and general women to know the domestic violence situation in 8 VDCs (Manikapur, Puraina, Puraini, Paraspur, Khaskarkado, Bankati, Piparawa and Basdevpur, in Banke District. From the study it was concluded that their knowledge on violence against girls and women is quite satisfactory but when it comes to reporting behavior, it is very low and unsatisfactory. The social structure of our country forces them to be shy and tolerant. Their tolerance, their depressed feelings and lack of confidence within themselves encourage the perpetrators who always eager to violate them. The problem of domestic violence against women related dowry in Madhise Community has grown so terribly huge and has rooted up to the depth of this society that to prevent easily in just a click remains a fantasy. Majority of the cases are related with Dowry related violence is child marriage, a misplaced get rich quick mentality whereby dowries seen as the perfect instrument for upward material mobility, and culture and tradition are the major causes of domestic violence in that area that causes domestic violence. So, efforts should be done from the basic level by educating every people and make them aware. Slow, careful and effective efforts should be made first in house hold level, then in the society and then in the national level to gain a satisfactory progress against the dowry related domestic violence cases. Dowry related domestic Violence is wide spread problem in Banke District in Madhise Community. Cultural, Economical and religious factors reinforce male dominance and female subservience so thoroughly that neither the domestic violence nor the failures to complain about it are unusual. By law, men inherit and control most property with the concomitant responsibility to support parents, wives and children. Illiteracy, Male dominance, Dependency, Cultural and religious factors are the main reason of DVAGW related dowry in Banke District. To reduce dowry system, there must be stopped or punished the people who are taking and giving dowry forcefully, to follow the inter caste marriage system, pressure the government of Nepal to adopt a more proactive approach to the elimination of dowry system in Madhise community.Item Domestic Violence against Women: Causes and Consequences(Department of Sociology, 2016) Maharjan, GautamNot availableItem Double Consciousness in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(Department of English, 2017) Khatri, HansarajThe present thesisreflects the multiple oppressions of black women in America in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings using the concept of 'Double Consciousness' developed by DuBois, Frantz Fanon and Bernard Bell. It depicts the relationships between black and white people through the experiences of a black girl in Southern America. The black woman protagonist of the novel, Maya faces discrimination, sexual abuse and segregation as race, gender and class issues were the general brands of black women’s oppression. The white woman changes her name from Marguerite to Mary also she is also raped by the white man frequently. The researcher takes the idea of 'Double Consciousness' and shows how the protagonist rejects the domination and exploitation of all kinds. The protagonist Maya survives by shaping her own future despite the hardships.Item The Golden Notebook: A Feminist Trauma Narrative(Department of English, 2010) Chhetri, PinkiThe present research on The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing attempts to show a vivid portrayal of traumatic experiences, especially the female characters of mid-century England triggered by The Great War. The war that inaugurated intergenerational trauma for Anna and her fellow “children of violence”, born after 1918. Along with personal experiences, external circumstances also lend the characters to a chaotic atmosphere. Women are bringing up children of their own, taking lovers, having careers in the arts and professions. The traumatic experiences of being isolated, alienated, incompleteness had engulfed them. Lessings’ female characters either Anna or Molly wanted to be independent like males in their society. Being free from marital bond, Anna realizes that the freedom of the independent woman is more restrictive than marriage, for it condemns her to emotional isolation and sexual abuse. The female characters are condemned to face anxiety either in their personal relationships or in social fields concerning in their careers or in politics. Lessings’ novel captures the painful withering away of the belief in communism. To come out of the trap of mental disillusionments, the protagonist, Anna reconciles her traumatic experiences as The Golden Notebook that is also a heal for her fragmentariness, incompleteness, disinterest, self-hatred, and corporeal abjection. She reformulated her most traumatic experiences into a narrative that finally brought her out of her traumatic hangover.Item Literacy, Freedom and Justice(Faculty of English, 2014) Shrestha, Nokha BahadurThis dissertation explores the issue of literacy in prominent nineteenth-century slave narratives in particular, the three slave narratives-The History of Mary Prince by Marry Prince,Incidents in the Life of Salve Girl by Harriet Jacobs and My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederic Douglass to show the extreme form of domination upon the slaves by different masters and mistresses.These narratives also stage the moments of resistance implying that slavery could be challenged if the slaves acquire literacy.Douglass's acquisition of literacy is a series of acts of resistance. His attempts to gain freedom through education establish acquisition of literacy as a form of resistance. Therefore, unjust discrimination and punishment were a kind of good lesson for some slaves like, Douglass, Jacobs and Mary Prince who instead of tolerating such unjust behavior,revolted resist, struggle for personal freedom. Thus, they deconstructed their history by rewriting it and disclosing the realizes of the slavery system. Jacob realizing the importance of education tries to teach other black people as she alone could not get complete equality. Prince also gets her narrative published with the help of literacy she has obtained education. Thus the three narratives highlight the importance of literacy for slaves to attain liberty from bondage.Item Traumatic Loss in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom !(Central Department of English, 2012) Basnet, NirmalThe present research on Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! attempts to explore the trauma of loss and lamentation. This seems that the loss stems from the exclusive devotion to the lost object, characteristic of the melancholic. It assumes that the rhetoric of lamentation vacillates between the claims of position and acknowledgement of loss. The moment of lamentation in Faulkner's novel urges on the language of melancholia and trauma.