پدرسری نظام اور تانیثی شعور: رضیہ فصیح احمد کے ناول "انتظارِ موسمِ گل" کی تانیثی پڑھت

Patriarchy and the Making of Feminist Consciousness: A Feminist Reading of Razia Fasih Ahmad's Novel "Intizar-e-Mausam-e-Gul"

الملخص

This paper examines Razia Fasih Ahmad's novel Intizar-e-Mausam-e-Gul through the lens of feminist literary theory, focusing on the character of Tara as a site of bodily, political, and economic resistance against patriarchal structures. Drawing on Simone de Beauvoir's concept of gender as social construction, Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity, Kate Millett's analysis of patriarchy as a political institution, Heidi Hartmann's materialist account of patriarchal solidarity, Adrienne Rich's theorization of the female body as contested terrain, and Hélène Cixous's notion of writing the body, the study traces how Tara negotiates bodily autonomy, marital consent, dowry-based economic valuation, motherhood as institution versus experience, and the double moral standard applied to men and women. The paper argues that Tara's resistance operates less through open rebellion than through cumulative small refusals of silence, of prescribed roles, of inherited meanings, that gradually reconstitute her as a self-possessed subject. Situating this reading within existing Urdu feminist criticism, the paper contends that Razia Fasih Ahmad presents woman not as a passive victim but as a conscious, questioning, and resisting being, and that her internal awakening, rather than external circumstance, constitutes the novel's central feminist achievement.