Negotiating Gender Roles in Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm

Gender roles, in the context of present study, specifically refers to traditionally accepted roles patriarchal societies wherein women’s subordination their male counterparts is amplified. The study incorporates ideas feminist theorists, and particular, Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex where she explores paradigm gender provides theoretical foundation upon which primary text Bodily Harm will be analysed. Traditionally, are often confined within domestic boundaries they expected fulfil needs family, bereft financial as well bodily independence, subjugating them passivity submissiveness. Margaret Atwood’s presents nuances detailing how girls conditioned, since childhood, conform these roles. paper lays emphasis on female protagonist’s attempt subvert endless conflicts, both internal external, that has endure acquire agency.