A Study of Disempowerment of Women in Afsana Pichhal Pairi by Afzal Ahsan Randhawa

Women are generally deprived of their basic human rights in typical patriarchal societies. The present research explores the presentation of the miseries of deprived and distressed women in the selected text. The research is qualitative-descriptive and examines the selected text through an adapted version of Longwe’s (1991) “Women’s Empowerment Framework”. The results reveal that typical rural lower-class women are deprived of participation in decision making related to their personal lives, balanced gender roles, access to wealth and opportunities for their material betterment. The deprived women are doomed with no outway to relieve themselves from the clutches of cruel societal norms. The adapted theoretical framework can contribute to studying the literature created in typical patriarchal societies.