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Item Feminism of Stardom: Representation of Body and Sexuality by American Feminist Pop Culture Icons(Central Department of English, 2019) Koirala, NikitaWestern academia is divided in terms of addressing the feminism endorsed by popular culture icons. A part of academia has been outrightly dismissive about the celebrity feminism concluding it either as a fiasco to coverup the overt commodification and objectification of female body or as uncritical theatrics that do not solve the real problems.On the other hand,there is also a part that is too embracing of the power of celebrity feminism over media and its impact on maneuvering public consciousness that they miss upon interrogating the criticality and pragmatism of celebrity projects. This paper examines the brand of feminism promoted by three American popular culture icons: Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga drawingon the insights offered by the extant dualism in academic feminism in terms of scope and space popular feminism should occupy in larger feminist project. The research is based on critical reading of the feminist repertoires of the mentioned icons with frequent examination of ongoing disagreements between the academic feminists. It offers a balanced approach to view the celebrity feminism and way to mitigate the pertinent dispute between academia and popular culture. Keywords: celebrity feminism,popular culture,body,sexuality, feminist enculturationItem Gender Role as Performance in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve(2017) Mishra, SushmitaThe thesis is an analysis on Angela Carter‟s novel, The Passion of New Eve based on the idea of gender role as performance. This research focusedon social construction of power, femininity and gender roles corresponding between sex and gender. It questions the patriarchal power structure that shapes the individual‟s identities. The characters show the gender roles assigned to them through symbolism, dualism, religion, psychoanalysis, and reference to mythology. There are female characters who represent femininity based on patriarchal notions. Using the Judith Butler‟s theory where everyday action, speech utterances, gestures and representations, dress codes and behaviors as well as certain prohibitions and taboos all work to produce what perceived as an essential masculine of feminine identity. I have analyzed characters investigating how the main character‟s gender identity is a construct. The presentation of a subversive performance of gender examinedthrough the idea of symbolic power of Phallus. The reversal of gender role is evident as women are in power by representing them strong and aggressive. The characters‟ gender roles are deconstructed and their individuality put to question in relation to their assigned role in the novel. The analysis of Carter‟s work demonstrates that she is against the imposition of gender roles and identities by patriarchal societies. It reflects the contemporary view of gender and sexuality as construct.Item Irony in Updike’s Rabbit, Run: A Kierkegaardain Reading(Central Department of English, 2011-02) Sapkota, Kamal PrasadJohn Updike’s Rabbit, Run exemplifies Kierkegaardian mastered irony. As an exemplar of this type of irony, the novel presents the two sides of issue and then leaves this paradox unresolved so that the intended meaning emerges as a play of contradiction. Updike organizes the moral debates about Christianity and evokes the ambiguity about sexuality and Christianity, paradox of God, faith, immorality and value of goodness. Kierkegaardian dialectical vision of mastered irony contains and maintains a species of controlled dialectical tension between the contradictory materials. The message of any ironic work is not represented by one or the other side of the dialectical issues; nor it is produced by the facial blending of the two; rather it comes out from the dynamic interplay of the unresolved thematic tension. Adopting this method, Updike dramatizes a dynamic play between the thematic tension raised in the novel that he calls the yes-but quality of his writing. All of the Rabbit's aesthetic yes has its own ethical but. Yes side of Rabbit's innerfreedom enables him to run and his social identity says but. Rabbit's search for something ultimately ends in nothing. Being a Christian minister, Eccles does not believe in anything. He represents the restrictive religio-socio sides of life. Such yes-but provides a paradoxical quality in the novel and all the conflicts and ambiguities are left unresolved.Item Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Lower Secondary and Secondary School Adolescents to STDs, HIV/AIDS and Sexuality (A Case Study in Taplejung District)(Department of Rural Development, 2006) Prasai, Ram KumarThis Study entitled "Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Lower and SecondarySchool Adolescents to STDs, HIV/AIDS and Sexuality," is based on the field surveyconduct in thesecondary schools of Taplejung district. This study has tried to figure outthe general knowledge attitude and behavior of School Adolescents on sexuality, STDsand HIV/AIDS. It becomes helpful to understand the knowledge,attitudeandbehaviormainly by gender wise on STDs, HIV/AIDS and sexuality. Out of the total sample population of 294, the percentages of Adolescents (77.9%)who have heard of HIV/AIDS is higher than the percentages (63.3%) who have heard ofSTDs. Only, 62.2 percent have heard of puberty. It shows that majority of adolescentspercentage of the studyarea are lower. It is due to the inclusion of more numbers ofadolescents (144) in the sample population from class 8. Adolescents of class 8 had poorknowledge about these disease and sexuality. For example, more than 80% of the class 10adolescents have heard of STDs and HIV/AIDS but less than 58 percent of class 8adolescents have heard of these diseases. The knowledge of sexuality STDs and HIV/AIDS is poor among femaleadolescents in comparison to the male adolescents due to the lesser number of sources ofknowledge. Due to the lack of sufficient knowledge, some of them had misconceptionabout ways of transmission, symptom and preventive measure of STDs and HIV/AIDS.The total percentages of adolescents (7.5%) who had experience of sexual intercoursebefore marriage is low but the percentages of male (18.4%) is more than three timeshigher than that of female (5.6%). Because of lack of sufficient knowledge of STDs andHIV/AIDS, some of them have negative attitude and bad behavior on these diseases.Therefore, for the development of significant knowledge, we should informand educatethem about STDs, HIV/AIDS and Sexuality.Item Sexuality as Stigma: A Study of Badi Women(Faculty Arts in English, 2009-08) Sapkota, DeepakThe present dissertation aspires to undertake the study on doubly exploited life of Badi women. This study delineates the hellish life of Badi women in present context where they are stigmatized from many sides. First of all, they are, because of their stigma of femininity, exploited by their own males within their homes. Secondly, they are further commodified and exploited also by the males of mainstream society. Worst of all, they are even stigmatized as Badini, Randi and Beshya and consequently ostracized by the same double dealers-men of mainstream cultural set up-who after bathing in their sexuality throughout the whole night hypocritically stigmatize and shun them at broad daylight. This is the stigma of their sexuality which is much more piercing and suffocating to all Badi women who are from the long time compelled to persue it being discouraged from doing mainstream jobs.Item Voice from the Margin: Feminist Identity in Plath’s Collected Poems(Department of English, 2008) Basnet, Purna BahadurSylvia Plath harshly attacks repressive patriarchal society which has not only rendered women as sub-human, inferior, mysterious, and uncertain but also has rendered the female insignificant . In the Collected Poems, Plath exposes the discrimination and violence meted out to females and their bodies. While exposing this, Plath raises her voice vehemently against patriarchy, which reflects her attempt to claim female identity and subjectivity as separate niche.