: Exploring Feminine Power and Agency in Salman Rushdie’s

Open access Sep 2026

Tracing the Abject: A Poststructuralist Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

This paper examines Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things from the perspective of Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection that she presented in her book Powers of Horror. This study contends that Roy’s novel depicts abject identities such as lower-caste Hindus, abandoned children, and a divorced mother highlighting the...

Syed Ali Raza, Farah Hashmi · Journal of Arts and Linguist... · 0 citations

Book Aug 2026

Bandita

Bandita is a powerful critique of the persistent marginalization of feminist scholarship. Taking up the work of Iris Marion Young, Michaele L. Ferguson argues that feminist political theorists have been “internally excluded”: formally included in the discipline while their most disruptive insights are misread, dismis...

Michaele L. Ferguson · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Beyond Pemberley: The Unseen Labor Enabling the “Polite” World

This paper argues that the polished, genteel world of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is sustained by the invisible labour of servants. Through close textual analysis and historical contextualisation, the essay examines how figures like Mrs. Hill and anonymous domestics enable the leisure and refinement of the landed...

Mengxin Liang · Literature Language and Cult... · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Breaking the Bonds: Women in Anita Nair’s Novels

The aim is to study the sociocultural sufferings and the dilemma of Anita Nair's protagonists who find themselves tattered between social conventions and traditions and their inordinate urge to transgress these boundaries and fulfill their desires. In The Better Man (2000) Nair talks about quest for identity and self r...

Shalini Sharma · International Journal For Mu... · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

An Academic Counterculture in Rich’s What Does a Woman Need to Know?

This article examines Adrienne Rich's 1979 commencement address, What Does a Woman Need to Know?, as a counterpublic intervention into the systemic erasure of women's knowledge. Although her writings have been read merely as a feminist mission to critique social injustice, it can be a tool to probe the resistance again...

Pradip Sharma, Chandra Bahadur Kc, Janak Paudel · Myagdi Guru · 0 citations

Open access Oct 2026

The Portrayal of Marxist Feminism in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

Abstract: This study examines how dialogue, costume, and gesture characterize Jo, Meg, and Amy in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) and articulate gender inequality through Marxist feminism. Using a qualitative approach, 23 time-coded scenes were purposively selected from the film. All data were descriptively coded an...

Zahra Yasmin, Nurhasanah Halim · Pendekar : Jurnal Pendidikan... · 0 citations