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SEXUAL AND SELFOBJECTIFICATION A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PAKISTANI SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).22      10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).22      Published : Mar 2021

Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English

Abstract

    This study aims to explore the problems of sexual and self-objectification in selected short stories of Pakistani female writers writing in English. The study focuses on Talat Abbasi's Simple Questions, Bina Shah's The Wedding of Sundari, Shaila Abdullah's Moment of Reckoning, Qaisara Shahraz's A Pair of Jeans, Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah's The Bull and the She-Devil. The study uses the theoretical framework of Fredrickson and Roberts' sexual objectification. Sexual and self-objectification is very significant and a different issue faced by the women in the patriarchal society. This study argues that women are not only sexually abused in society and treated like useless objects, but also they internalize this attitude of society and behave as the patriarchal society expects from them. This behaviour of women helps the patriarchal society to further marginalize and victimize them.

    Feminism, Pakistani Literature, Patriarchy, Self-Objectification, Sexual-Objectification

    (1) Sajid Ali
    Assistant Professor of English, Higher Education Department, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Shabana Iqbal
    MPhil Scholar, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Maleeha Akhtar Mulghani
    MPhil Scholar, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Ali, S., Iqbal, S., & Mulghani, M. A. (2021). Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English. Global Regional Review, VI(I), 203-210. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).22

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Ali, Sajid, Shabana Iqbal, and Maleeha Akhtar Mulghani. 2021. "Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English." Global Regional Review, VI (I): 203-210 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).22

HARVARD

    HARVARD : ALI, S., IQBAL, S. & MULGHANI, M. A. 2021. Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English. Global Regional Review, VI, 203-210.

MHRA

    MHRA : Ali, Sajid, Shabana Iqbal, and Maleeha Akhtar Mulghani. 2021. "Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English." Global Regional Review, VI: 203-210

MLA

    MLA : Ali, Sajid, Shabana Iqbal, and Maleeha Akhtar Mulghani. "Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English." Global Regional Review, VI.I (2021): 203-210 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Ali, Sajid, Iqbal, Shabana, and Mulghani, Maleeha Akhtar (2021), "Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English", Global Regional Review, VI (I), 203-210

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Ali, Sajid, Shabana Iqbal, and Maleeha Akhtar Mulghani. "Sexual and Self-Objectification: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Pakistani Short Stories in English." Global Regional Review VI, no. I (2021): 203-210. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).22