Performing Male Gender: A Feministic Reading of Jane Smiley’s Good Will

dc.contributor.authorGhimire, Prem Lal
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-22T08:51:56Z
dc.date.available2021-07-22T08:51:56Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractTo read Smiley's Good Will is to explore the causes of inferior placement of women and to prove patriarchal norms and values as the root causes of it. Liz, Lydia and Annabel, the female characters are the victim of male chauvinistic mindset. Though they seem docile in the beginning, but later they challenge patriarchy and Liz lives separately from her husband and Lydia and Annabel struggle to get the compensation of their cut coat, lost doll and burnt house. Liz as an advocate of women's independence rejects the so-called self-sufficiency provided by her husband. By all her means she attacks the male-controlled religion, myths and ideologies and wants to set herself free from all form of domination and doctrines which are still prevalent in the society as hindrances for the women's project. Bob and Tommy, the macho characters loaded with masculine values whose unacknowledged desire of ruling upon the female has placed the female in inferior position. Despite all female characters’ constant struggle against patriarchal doctrines, their dream never comes true since those doctrines thwart on their project of being free.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/1347
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.subjectself-sufficiencyen_US
dc.subjectdominationen_US
dc.subjectpatriarchal normsen_US
dc.subjectinferior placementen_US
dc.titlePerforming Male Gender: A Feministic Reading of Jane Smiley’s Good Willen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Englishen_US

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