Abstract
This study aims at exploring the practise of gender-based socialisation of
girls for stereotypes in two of Bapsi Sidhwa’s novels “Ice Candy Man” and
“Water” through Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus (Bourdieu, 1988;
1992). This notion is adopted to analyse the role of habitus in formation of
early age socialisation for gender-based stereotypes. The study is carried out
by following the method of textual analysis and close reading of both the
novels. The findings of the study can be seen in two ways. First, girls are
trained for stereotypes in the very early age. For this, their parents, family,
society and culture play an important role. The practise of different roles for
men and women in societal order enhance these stereotypes associated with
one’s gender. Agents are socialised for certain practises according to their
gender i.e. girls are trained at an early for married life, by feeding sweetened
speculation in their minds. They are taught their womanly roles i.e. being
domestic, doing household chores, being submissive, which due to their
consecutive practise and internalisation becomes part of their habitus.
Secondly, the study finds out that certain time agents transform and change
their habitus even the field promotes stereotypical behaviours. Sidhwa has
presented the women who try to break their structured and socialised habitus
according to their approach and activate their habitus according to their
logic of practise.
Ume Kulsoom Rind, Dr. Ambreen Shahriar, Dr. Muhammad Khan Sangi. (2018) Gender Stereotype And Gender-based Socialisation: An Early Age Development Of Habitus And Its Transformation In Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man And Water, The Women - Annual Research Journal of Gender Studies, Volume-10, Issue-1.
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