http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).13
10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).13
Published : Mar 2024
The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water
This article aims to shed light on the discrimination, stigmatization, and marginalization experienced by intersex individuals in heteronormative Pakistani society. Intersex individuals face social ostracization in Pakistan. The primary goal of this study is to examine how Bhanggi, the protagonist of Faiqa Mansab's novel This House of Clay and Water (2017), suffers psychologically, physically, and mentally due to the unacceptance of his gender and the strict gender constraints of South Asia, specifically Pakistan. The in-depth analysis of Bhanggi's character helps in understanding the day-to-day struggles and significant obstacles encountered by intersex individuals, especially due to their gender identity. Using the conceptual framework of Sigmund Freud's personality theory, the study also contends that Bhanggi is victimized and condemned throughout his life because of his gender identification and societal prejudice.
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Gender binaries, Intersex, Marginalization, Pakistan, Stigmatization.
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(1) Yusra Fatima
MS Scholar, Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Amara Khan
Associate professor, Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Fatima, Y., & Khan, A. (2024). The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water. Global Sociological Review, IX(I), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).13
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CHICAGO : Fatima, Yusra, and Amara Khan. 2024. "The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water." Global Sociological Review, IX (I): 143-155 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).13
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HARVARD : FATIMA, Y. & KHAN, A. 2024. The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water. Global Sociological Review, IX, 143-155.
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MHRA : Fatima, Yusra, and Amara Khan. 2024. "The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water." Global Sociological Review, IX: 143-155
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MLA : Fatima, Yusra, and Amara Khan. "The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water." Global Sociological Review, IX.I (2024): 143-155 Print.
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OXFORD : Fatima, Yusra and Khan, Amara (2024), "The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water", Global Sociological Review, IX (I), 143-155
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TURABIAN : Fatima, Yusra, and Amara Khan. "The Plight of Intersex Individuals: Examination of Marginalization in Pakistan through Faiqa Mansab's This House of Clay and Water." Global Sociological Review IX, no. I (2024): 143-155. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).13