Anthropology, Feminism, and Literature: Blurring Boundaries

Abstract

This paper illustrates the vital relationship and the seamless bond among anthropology, feminism, and literature. The paper demonstrates that with changing times Pakhtun women have used various means, like folk songs, published literary texts, and/or visual representations to voice the gender disparity prevalent in their socio-cultural set up. The paper further discusses that the use of various genres as tools of expression have stimulated cultural ideological shifts and has given Pakhtun women agency in the past and the present.