Browsing by Subject "Womens resistance"
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Item Female Alienation in Anita Brookner's Providence: A Feminist Reading(Department of English, 2014) Sigdel, ShrijanaThis research seeks to foreground women’s resistance against repressive patriarchy in Anita Brookner’s Providence. Through the depiction of a female character, Kitty Maule, Brookner in Providence tries to portray the resistance and self identity of a woman despite deep rooted patriarchal domination in the society. The female characters in the novel get united to subvert the artificial norms and values of the patriarchal mechanism in the contemporary society. The unification of women in the novel becomes instrumental to subvert such male hegemony. It is the traditional belief and roles of females which restrict them to be enslaved within their own house. That is why, to be free from such hierarchical domination and exploitation, construction of female bonding and resistance to such oppressive patriarchal mechanism is inevitable.Item Resistance Against Patriarchal Norms in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain(Department of English, 2013) Nepal, Bishow HariThis research seeks to foreground women’s resistance against repressive patriarchy in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. The novel abounds with rebellious characters like, Ada, Ruby, Big Tildy, Goat Woman, and others. Their actions and activities subvert the norms that are responsible for the repression of women. Out of them, Ada and Ruby deconstruct traditional gender roles by putting on trousers of Ada’s father and openly involving themselves in hunting and gathering thereby, challenging and resisting patriarchal ideology and the gender roles. They also forge a certain kind of bond and involve in farming, which comes in opposition to the male pastoral tradition. They ultimately are able to maintain their life at their own. Similarly, Goat Woman debunks repression by discarding her husband; and by choosing to realize her individuality and subjectivity.Item Suppression of Female and Women’s Resistance in Zoe Ferraris’s The Night of the Miraj(Department of English, 2012) Gautam, Anand PrasadTo read Zoe Ferraris The Night of the Miraj is to explain the live picture of Saudi Arab, and to excavate Muslim women’s are treatment under patriarchy and their culture. Because of the strict and conservative cultural beliefs, Muslim women have to face various problems and restrictions. The female who belongs to this socity are treated as animals,it does not mean that they bear whatever is done or imposed upon them. During the course of time, they become aware and conscious about their subordination and oppose the patriarchal social system by resisting against the biased traditional norms and values. The female characters in the novel like Nouf, Hijazi and Abir set their sense of resistance by opposing the existing system. Social systems are constructed by male, so that the male made system is unable to treat both sexes equally. They are male who create and interprete their cultural system in their own favour.