Abstract
Humans by birth are placed in either group of men or women according to their
physical body traits. But, the post structural theorists like Deleuze and Guattari (1987) through
the concept of becoming and becoming woman, ruminate the reversal of the gender binaries, and
demolition of gender hierarchy, also provide the theoretical ground work for the undertaken
research. They believe in life as movement and transformation, thus, establishing a non-hierarchical
movement, where betterment exists only when one agrees to step into mobility, progress and growth,
after quitting stagnancy and moving towards involution, the non-stagnant sphere of becoming
woman. The investigation of “The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning” (2014) through
thematic analysis, led to the findings that variation or change is only possible when a person agrees
to quit the hierarchical status by a will to experience womanhood. The findings reveal that it is
only through becoming woman, which is not a physical body turning into a physical woman, that
space into further becomings, could be opened up by exploring body potentials. This, thus,
guarantees an unlimited experience and profound understandings into things, persons and places,
that seem to be inaccessible in time and space.
Zainab Akram, Faria Saeed Khan. (2019) Reconsidering Body: Investigating Becoming Women in a Fairy Tale, The ELF Annual Research Journal, Volume 21, Issue 1.
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