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    Feminist perspective on women’s resistance against their stringent social identity in the gatekeepers wife and other short stories by rukhsana ahmad
    (UMT.Lahore, 2022) Saman Fatima Khan
    This paper examines the resistance of women against a formulated rigid identity in The Gatekeeper’s Wife and Other Short Stories by Rukhsana Ahmad. Women in Ahmad’s fictional world are culturally exploited and are shown as a commodity in a multicultural society. In these short stories resistance is represented as a hidden power and is directly connected with power structures as James C. Scott claims in his theory of everyday resistance; “resistance is a practice and it is historically entangled with power” (1989). He has presented resistance is two forms; public and disguised resistance. This paper explores disguised resistance as a tool for women to fight against patriarchal society. By using this new form of resistance, women negotiate with the patriarchal structure which eventually convert their covert resistance into an overt identity. Rukhsana Ahmad describes the crucial binary of men and women in her short stories, The Gatekeepers Wife and Other Short Stories. By focusing on these binaries, this paper highlights the disguised resistance of women as a survivalist strategy to combat for a social identity in a male-dominant society.