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Item A Feminist Critique on the Patriarchal American Capitalism in The Terminator (Part I)(Department of English, 2013) Sharma, SabitaThis research entitled “A Feminist Critique on the Patriarchal American Capitalism in The Terminator” concerns with the gender discrimination and women resistance against it. Here, we can see, Sarah shows her courage and kills Terminator, at the end of the movie. Through the critical analysis of Sarah, the female character, this study aims at deconstructing the gender prejudices and patriarchal binaries centrally collected in Cameron’s movie. In this movie, Cameron focuses on Male Cyborg rather than Female Cyborg to show male as superior and female as an inferior. From the beginning, Sarah, a center character, is portrayed as very weak, innocent and dependent. Whereas male characters have been portrayed as strong and powerful, but Sarah sets her sense of resistance in opposition to the gender discrimination. Sarah, a female character has been targeted by both chivalrous and misogynistic male. Terminator (antagonist) and Reese (protagonist) are portrayed as masculine power; try to control Sarah in their own way. A male character has imposed unwanted troubles upon the female like Sarah. So, female protagonist comes with the sense of resistance against the gender oppression and stands up against the whole system which also brings the possibility of Female Cyborg.Item Women’s Resistance in Mahasweta Devi’s The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh(Department of English, 2022) Maden, SaraswatiThis research paper portrays patriarchal hegemony in Indian society and the voice against it through the bonding of women. Mahasweta Devi has selected Barha, a real place in India, to tell a life-like story of Lachhima, Putli, Rukmani, Pallavi and others in order to show how ideology of patriarchy treat women and how females’ bonding and their collective effort of resistance play important roles to question traditions which promote patriarchy and its oppression. Moreover, through this fictional text, the researcher brings women’s issue at the center of writing, discussion and debate in the theoretical frame of feminism. To carry out this task, the researcher brings theoretical insights related to feminism of GayatriChakravortySpivak’sCan the Subaltern Speak?,Ketu H. Katrak’sPolitics of the Female Bodyand other too. By applying these tools, this research paper tries to find out how the unification and collective voice of women including Lachhima’s provides the possible ways to challenge and change the domination of men. Hence, this paper attempts to extend the horizon of alternatives of maintaining gender equality and freedom in the society to make it a better place to live in.