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    Development of Androgynous Identities
    (UMT, Lahore, 2022) Bushra Siddiqui
    This dissertation contends that androgynous identities are presented and developed by both British and Pakistani English fiction following the feminist perspective. Androgyny includes the characteristics associated with the manifestation of dual genders traits that are based on stereotypical images of gender and become a symbol of recognition of the assigned gender roles in a patriarchal society. The selected British text, Orlando, deals with the topic boldly by depicting androgyny in not only internal and psychological dimension but also encompasses the external and physiological aspect. In the socio-cultural oppositional binary, the selected Pakistani texts follow the Eastern patriarchal traditions and androgynous characters illustrate the duality of characteristics through the evolution of female characters.