O. Gurung

Patriarchy, Literature, and Violence: Women’s Suffering in Amar Neupane’s Seto Dharti and Yadav Kumar Bhattarai’s Jhola

Patriarchy in Nepal continues to shape women’s lives through deeply rooted cultural practices that normalize suffering, silence, and exclusion. Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, women, particularly in rural areas, face multiple forms of gender-based violence, including child marriage, ritualized widowhood,...