Redefining the Other: Sexual Politics in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Mole” and “The Homemaker”

In presenting the sexual politics in her stories, Ismat Chughtai is often quite deconstructive. “The Mole” and Homemaker,” she breaks traditional power nexus of man as subject woman Other sexuality by characters Rani Lajo respectively. These characters, with their bold authoritative sexuality, choose relationships on own posit themselves at centre those relationships—Rani Choudhry, Chunnan Ratna; hers Mirza. By portraying these two women politics, redefines to be man, instead woman. The pattern that weaves here do has distinct threads: first, empowering both second, making them reciprocal they share men stories. Drawing theoretical perspective from Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex, this paper examines Chughtai’s process redefining between study demonstrates author redefined stories when it comes question a thus contributed gynocentric Urdu narratives manifesting an intellectual rebellion against phallocentric notions time.