Abstract
This research paper attempts to demonstrate in what way women authors writing in English greatly contribute to challenge the patriarchal gender stereotypes in literature as literature influences the people’s frame of mind. Already prevailing preconceptions contour different gender biased practices in a culture. George Eliot and Qaisra Shahraz high-spot the imposed conventional roles of males and females in two diverse societies of the East and the West where religion and traditions are different but social power structure is same. It is analyzed that these writers instead of supporting and strengthening the set pattern of social constructs, go for condemnation, as they consider them to be man-made and generally destructive for both the genders, particularly for women. Their female protagonists prove to be halting against aggressive patriarchal postulates and suggest a process of change and possible solutions. Pakistani female-authored works in English are an indispensable part of feminist literary canvas, as examining the English and Pakistani female feminist writings in a parallel fashion provides with a broader scope for the reconsideration of woman’s status and rights at a universal level.
Rafea Bukhari1. (2017) The Holy Woman and Middlemarch: Challenging the Patriarchal Gender Stereotypes in Literature, Balochistan Review, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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