• Mohd Rashid

The study of this research paper examines the status of female in patriarchal social setup. The leading voices against patriarchy; include Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristiva, Michel Foucaultt, and Helene Cixous. The study seeks to explore concise illustration of female concerns in various literary works. The paper observes the women characters from Afghan tradition who have been the victims of male dominance. This paper also throws a light on the women as the victims of male dominance in A Thousand Splendid Suns. The paper tries to scrutinize Afghan as a masculine civilization in Muslim patriarchal context of the country. Thus, It is important to shed light on the equal freedom of female in social set up.

Women, family, salvation, male supremacy, and freedom.

"Representation of Women in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.360-363, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906R91.pdf

"Representation of Women in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp360-363, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906R91.pdf