Dismantling Conventional Gender and Sexuality: Lesbianism inWritten on the Bodyby Jeanette Winterson
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Thisresearchentitled “Dismantling Conventional Gender and Sexuality:
Lesbianism inWritten on the Bodyby Jeanette Winterson”problematizes and
redefinesthe concept of gender and sexualitycreated by hetero-patriarchal discourse
of western metaphysicsthereby blurring the strict boundary between male and female
based on binary oppositionsthat createdichotomy and hierarchy betweenthemand
openingup theother alternativesas lesbian, transsexual and bi-sexual relationships
rejected and dejected by the western thought.Deconstructing and destabilizing gender
and sexuality,Written on the Bodydramatizes a lesbian love story betweenthe
genderless, nameless and ageless narrator and Louise. It subverts and deconstructs the
male-supporting patriarchal and heterosexual discourse thereby reconstructing the
stereotypical feminine attributes.Thus, in this research, the traditional adherence to
heterosexuality is revisited in post-feminist advocacy of genderlessnarratorin order
to challenge and subvert the binary opposition between male and female thereby
critiquing and deconstructing the traditional notion of gender and sexuality.
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Lesbianism, Gender, Sexuality