• PINKY BHATT

Gender, sex, and sexuality, these words always remained a question of complexity, to which human civilization made a considerable effort to demystify. The concept of woman’s exploitation on the basis of their sex is not something new. In this patriarchal world of ours, a woman is always brought down to the level of mere sex slave and subordinate to a man. The concept of gender- role, whether in India or in Abroad, has become that much absorbed in our veins that we started taking it as a part and parcel in our life. But the concept of ‘Social Constructionism’ goes against the idea of ‘Gender Essentialism’, which tries to examine behavioral patterns of a human being in reference to the verifying system of civilization. This present paper of mine attempts to discover this conflict of notion in human behaviour, especially in the Indian context as presented by Nayantara Sahgal in her novel ‘A Situation in New Delhi’, which presents a picture gallery of a number of female characters confirming to one concept or to another, in order to inspect how much the radical fervor of essentialism has changed with the passage of time, giving place to the notion of gender performativity.

Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Patriarchal, Social Constructionism, Gender Essentialism, Gender Performativity.

"Gender Essentialism v/s Social Constructionism in the Indian Context as Presented in Sahgal’s ‘A Situation in New Delhi’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.215-218, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904432.pdf

"Gender Essentialism v/s Social Constructionism in the Indian Context as Presented in Sahgal’s ‘A Situation in New Delhi’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp215-218, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904432.pdf