Social spaces
| dc.contributor.author | Minahil Sarfraz | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-21T21:55:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-21T21:55:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper aims to apply the theory of Gender Performativity by Judith Butler on Sabyn Javeri and Zebunnnisa Hamidullah‟s selected short stories. Through gender performativity the institution of marriage is seen as a construct in the Pakistani society where women are victims of phallocentric oppression. With reference to the four short stories of Zebunnisa Hamidullah named as “The Peepul Tree”, “The First Born”, “The Bull and the She Devil” and “The Young Wife” published in 1971 and Sabyn Javeri‟s “The Urge”, an attempt has been made to analyze the chain of performativity going from 1950s till date. According to Hamidullah and Javeri‟s short fiction, marriage portrays a very bleak image of this societal institution. Through the work of both authors, it is presumed that the patriarchy and men are oppressing and crushing down womankind in every manner conceivable. This paper argues that women are still subjected to a harsh world that falls upon them, not merely because they were treated differently in earlier periods when there was less knowledge and people were less educated. Even after the feminist revolution, women have gained some power in contemporary or upper-class society, but on a larger scale, women's acceptability in rural regions remains to be hazy. For this qualitative research, the shackle of performativity has been broken by reading and comparing works of modern writers addressing the institution of marriage in today's society. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11658 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | UMT, Lahore | |
| dc.title | Social spaces | |
| dc.title.alternative | Strains of gender performativity in selected Pakistani fiction | |
| dc.type | Thesis |
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