Ajwa Mustafa2025-11-222025-11-222024https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/12040This thesis investigates the horrifying effects of industrialization in 1920s England: capitalization, destruction of natural landscape, women’s oppression along with the sexual constraints experienced by the tyrannized Connie in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Materialistic Eco-feminism, a specific strand of Socialist Feminism, posits that the exploitation of women and degradation of natural environment are affiliated through patriarchal, capitalized system. Simone De Beauvoir, an eco-feminist critic, analyzed eco-feminism as a renewed attempt to pin women down to their tradition role. Gender essentialism renders that legitimate sex is a primary factor in determining gender of a human as men and women are biologically different. Eco-feminism scrutinizes women as nurturers and men as the dominant creatures of society, thus reinstates gender essentialism. D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover considers women’s oppression and exploitation of natural scenery as a product of capital society, experienced by the young, free-spirited, protagonist, Connie – grappling to escape the inheritance of her misogynistic, war-stricken, disabled husband. Female sexuality – in association to authentic identity postulates that sexual authenticity has temerity to challenge capitalistic orthodoxy. The thesis aims to achieve women’s liberation along with nature’s preservation by applying specific strands of Socialist feminism in order to abolish male dominated capitalist oppression.enThesis