Women against women
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2020
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UMT, Lahore
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This paper attempts to implement the theory of the Lacanian Symbolic Order on the genre of an autobiography authored by Pakistani female writers who have been in lawful or unlawful relationships with social or political figures of Pakistan. It is believed that Pakistani society hails patriarchy because it is phallocentric, thus leaving a bee space for women to disintegrate patriarchy. The autobiographical novel My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani is taken as the feminist voice. This indicates that female literature canonized female readers and critics who misinterpret feminist autobiographical literature in the autobiographical genre. By associating oneself with the phallic structure, the author positions herself as a heroine through self- victimized narration. This raises questions on the impact of autobiographies written by females when the authors made it to the social and political headlines after being in a consensual, cordial, or matrimonial relation with eminent social or political figures. This research will unleash the notion of "women against women" by analyzing the rivalry amongst female characters and their portrayal in My Feudal Lord. This paper attempts to establish that autobiographies can be utilized to claim Lacanian phallus. This serves as a tool to incorporate, promote and impose patriarchy for women of other classes.