Gender and Sexuality in the Selected Poems of Kishwar Naheed

Abstract

The paper aims at analysing Kishwar Naheed’s selected poems from feminist point of view. This paper shows the way Gender and Sexuality intertwined in the poems of Kishwar Naheed. Kishwar Naheed writes about women condition, social status and identity of women in Pakistan particularly and sub continental women in general. Sex is biological difference of male and female whereas Gender is socially constructed roles for male and female. This socially constructed Gender roles oppress women in the name of culture, tradition and religion. The paper is trying to bring out the ways Kishwar Naheed raising a voice against gendered Society.