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    Deconstructing phal logocentrism in Herland by charlotte Perkins Gilman and sultana’s dream by begum Rokaya
    (UMT, Lahore, 2019) MEMOONA AYAZ
    Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain an Asian writer who belonged to India and Gilman an American writer, both aimed to embrace feminism and are well known for their feminist utopian writings, Sultana’s Dream and Herland, respectively. Demands for women’s rights are fictitiously portrayed by using a very unique technique like utopia in both texts. The novel and the short story have been analyzed on the basis of Cixousian concept of L’ectriture Feminine, in which she reverses the binary opposition where man is privileged and women are oppressed. The pivotal aim of the research is to analyze the deconstruction of the stereotypical roles attached to the female identity under the umbrella of the Phallogocentrism, the concept introduced by Jacques Derrida and Lacan according to which in the binary oppositions most particularly in the system of man/women binary, the term on the left side [man] is always privileged. By deconstruction of this Phallogocentric system, this research aims to focus on the reconstruction of the feminine identity in a female framework and discourse that is free from male presuppositions. Helene Cixous in her essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ tries to reconstruct the shattered and derogatory women’s identity. With the help of the same framework the main objective of this research is to highlight the traces in the aforementioned texts, where the stereotypical notions of gender have been deconstructed in order to reconstruct feminine identity