Cultural Feminism in Shazaf Fatima’s How It Happened

Abstract

This study examines the Shazaf Fatima Haider's novel. The focus is to explore How It Happened to evaluate the effect of Cultural Feminism, particularly Matriarchy.  Additionally, the creation of triple repression of quiet and shadowy figures in South-Eastern nations. The research is based on Cultural feminism in Shazaf Fatima’s “How It Happened”, which demonstrates how the patriarchal cultural bounds of the world have harassed and haunted women. The preconceptions about marriage and women's emancipation were underlined in this study. This work is prone to qualitative research. It looked at the narrative through the lens of Feminist Theory, specifically Cultural Feminism. The research elucidates how the repressed and enigmatic personalities of matriarchs reconfigure the significance of their being throughout time. In doing so, they create the fourth degree of subjugation of their very own gender in a particular domestic setting. This study did a thorough examination of the individual character of issues like cultural feminism, forced marriages, and love marriages in Pakistani culture