A synopsis of Pakistani English Writers in

Women's writing
Pakistani English literature is certainly concerned to analyze the nervous conditions of being a woman in
a Post colonial environment whether in socially opression of post colony or the metropolis.

Bapsi Sidwa:
Bapsi Sidwa has made huge contribution to the opus of pakistani English literature.Sidwa defined
traditional role assigned to woman in patriarchial society .She is primarily concerned with the impact of
independence on the bodies of women in terms sexuale exploitation and in lives of women.Sidwa's
female characters find their bodies to be site of struggle which men try to control.Her works shows male
obsession with female bodies.

The Pakistani bride in which a very young girl changes into old girl . In ice Candy Man shanta depicted
the story if every female who was submitted after or before independence.

In her works , female body is not natural thing for man rather it has been coded culturally and man has
strong patriarchial grip on her body .The female characters realize their sexual assulation and try to
break these patriarchal barriers.Sidwa indoors the importance of resistance, self -worth and self -
assertion

Sara Sulheri
Sara Suleri’s particular brand of feminism depicts the potential for power in

marginalization for privileged women such as herself and her family members in

Pakistan. She encounters cultural limitations. Suleri highlights the

infeasibility of a comprehensive female identity in Pakistan by declaring that “there

are no women in the third world” . In fact, her autobiography commences

with the insistence that in Pakistan “the concept of woman was not really part of an

available vocabulary: we were too busy for that, just living, and conducting precise

negotiations with what it meant to be a sister or a child or a wife or a mother or a servant. Suleri states
that women in
Pakistan thought of their womanhood as “hidden somewhere among clothes” and their husbands
colonize their bodies

Tehmina Durani:
Feminists call pakistani feminism , islamic Feminism or Muslim Feminism . Women are humiliated in
marriage relations in the name of Islam ,as few customs in Sindh.

After the departure of British colonizers, indigenous women of Pakistan further

subordinated by the neocolonial masters through feudal and tribal infrastructure. The

praxis of feudalism which is negated as an institutionalized exploitation in its own

locality however assumed as strategic human development model for its colonies. This

infrastructure cast dual marginalization over Pakistani women.

Her famous work autobiography "My Feudal Lord" has broken the silence for a part of society which
can't speak out. Tehmina Durani raised her voice for those women who are humiliated and beaten in
marriage relationships but due to cultural pressure ,ther are resisted to speak ,by offering her own
example.

Conclusion: Pakistani English writers

expose the troubles and problems of indigenous women at individual level

and attempts to resolve their problems by engaging them in various states of affair.