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Volume 21:12 December 2021
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The Feminist Study of Rupi Kaur’s Home Body

Shafqat Hussain and Ameer Ali



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Abstract

This study is carried out in reaction to the patriarchal mechanism of society, where women have always been subjugated, suppressed, and surpassed by men. The research is conducted on the poetic book of Rupi Kaur, Home Body. It is designed descriptively and qualitative in approach. The researcher has followed Textual Analysis Method for the analysis of gathered data. The textual data are collected with the sampling strategy of Simple Random Sampling. Theoretical framework of Feminism by Beauvoir is adapted as an optic to critically analyze the data. Findings of the study reveal that women in postmodern/postcolonial India are marginalized on the basis of their gender.

They suffer from psychological disorder because of their feminine race, and Kaur hailing from India has been a literary voice to advocate the suffering of women and want to preach and make realize the readers about the outcomes of patriarchal mindset which subjugates women. Also, the study is a fine contribution in the existing mansion of feminist discourse of the world.

1. Introduction

Literature has been manifesting the crucial issues of its contemporary and historical society. Writers attempt at revealing the black layers of society. Literature that is why is considered the true imitation of life. (Aristotle). Throughout the history of literature, poets have been manifesting the confined crimes, love, romance, nature and evils in the society. The exploitation of women’s rights under the umbrella of social crisis, has also been portrayed by a good score of feminist poets like, Alexander Pope, Maya Angelou, Christiana Rossetti, Chetan Bhagat Parveen Shakir, Ahmed Faraz and Rupi Kaur.

In the patriarchal mechanism of society, women have always been subjugated, suppressed, and surpassed by men. They are deemed as machines and tools. The traditional mind of male-dominant societies, consider women as a machine for giving birth to their babies. They are handled as a tool for their sexual desires. Women lack in economic, social and political life of equal nature of their men. This patriarchal trend has prevailed almost in every era throughout human history. The movement of feminism has advocated the women’s rights in society.


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Shafqat Hussain
MPhil Scholar
University of Sindh Jamshoro, Pakistan
shafqat98hussain@gmail.com

Ameer Ali
MPhil Scholar
University of Sindh Jamshoro, Pakistan
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