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HUMANIZING WOMEN IN CHILDREN FICTION A DECONSTRUCTIONIST READING OF GIRARDS GIRL MANS UP

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).08      10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).08      Published : Mar 2021

Humanizing Women in Children Fiction: A Deconstructionist Reading of Girard's Girl Mans Up

Abstract

    The present study explores how children fiction nuances the socialization of girls and boys in phallogocentric writings and societies. The teen-protagonists in children fiction highlight the prescribed socialization vis-a-vis the gender binary and contest against the overemphasized concept of girlhood and boyhood. The social prescription of how a girl and boy would behave essentializes their role in traditional patriarchal societies. They grow up as cultural beings and not as individuals. Simone de Beauvoir, a French Feminist Existentialist, jargonizes this socialization as 'the eternal feminine' in order to highlight the nature of gender binary in traditional patriarchal societies. Following this notion of de Beauvoir, this study deconstructs the socialization of children vis-a-vis their relationship with the discursive and non-discursive practices of a given culture. In this regard, this study delimited M-E Girard's Girl Mans Up to deconstruct the concept of 'the eternal feminine' by foregrounding the challenges of a teenage girl that she faces in order to subvert the prescribed gender binary of girlhood and boyhood vis-a-vis a prescribed social hierarchy.

    Children Fiction, Deconstruction, Episteme(s), Essentialization, The Eternal Feminine, Feminism

    (1) Sana Sajjad
    MPhil English, Department of English, Government, College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Asma Aftab
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government, College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Nafees Parvez
    PhD Scholar, Department of English, Government, College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    TURABIAN : Sajjad, Sana, Asma Aftab, and Nafees Parvez. "Humanizing Women in Children Fiction: A Deconstructionist Reading of Girard's Girl Mans Up." Global Regional Review VI, no. I (2021): 69-77. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).08