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OPPRESSION AND FEMALE BODY A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF THE NOVEL HALF THE SKY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).11      10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).11      Published : Mar 2021

Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'

Abstract

    The female body is more than often used as a site to perpetuate violence and oppress women in patriarchal societies. The current study aims to explore how patriarchal oppression targets the female body and how it enforces women to become subalterns having no voice in the selected fictional work, Half the Sky by Kristoff and WuDunn. For this purpose, Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) and Bryan Turner's The Body theory (1984) are used as theoretical frameworks to explore the selected novel. The research is descriptive qualitative, and placed within the interpretive paradigm. The data for the present study is in the form of textual paragraphs, which is taken from the selected novel and is collected through the purposive sampling technique. The study argues on women's oppression and violence. The findings of the study revealed that the dominancy of male counterpart in every field of life is the basic reason for women oppression which leads to the women being subalterns.

    Oppression, Violence, Feminism, Patriarchy, Female Body

    (1) Ayesha Khaliq
    Research Scholar, Department of English, The Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Mamona Yasmin Khan
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Rabia Hayat
    Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Khaliq, A., Khan, M. Y., & Hayat, R. (2021). Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'. Global Sociological Review, VI(I), 79-85. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).11

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Khaliq, Ayesha, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Rabia Hayat. 2021. "Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'." Global Sociological Review, VI (I): 79-85 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).11

HARVARD

    HARVARD : KHALIQ, A., KHAN, M. Y. & HAYAT, R. 2021. Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'. Global Sociological Review, VI, 79-85.

MHRA

    MHRA : Khaliq, Ayesha, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Rabia Hayat. 2021. "Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'." Global Sociological Review, VI: 79-85

MLA

    MLA : Khaliq, Ayesha, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Rabia Hayat. "Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'." Global Sociological Review, VI.I (2021): 79-85 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Khaliq, Ayesha, Khan, Mamona Yasmin, and Hayat, Rabia (2021), "Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'", Global Sociological Review, VI (I), 79-85

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Khaliq, Ayesha, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Rabia Hayat. "Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'." Global Sociological Review VI, no. I (2021): 79-85. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).11