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Sexual Liberation and Gendered Power in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Author(s) Dr. Leishangthem Malem Chanu, Ms. Shadokpam Susmita Chanu
Country India
Abstract Sexual liberation in Lady Chatterley’s Lover is deeply entangled with hierarchies of gender and class, producing a conflicted vision of female agency rather than a straightforward emancipation narrative. This abstract argues that Lawrence’s representation of Connie’s erotic awakening both challenges and re-inscribes patriarchal power, as bodily desire becomes the site where masculine dominance is reasserted under the guise of mutual fulfillment. Reading the novel through feminist and gender-theoretical lenses, the paper examines how Clifford’s impotence and Mellors’s virility structure competing models of masculinity, while Connie’s body functions as a contested terrain on which anxieties about modernity, industrialization, and class disintegration are played out. The analysis foregrounds the ways in which ostensibly “liberating” sexual encounters remain framed in male-coded language that prioritizes phallic authority and naturalizes heterosexual complementarity. By tracing the intersections of erotic discourse, class transgression, and hegemonic masculinity, the paper contends that the novel ultimately offers a reactionary erotics that politicizes sex without fully destabilizing gendered power relations. Thus, Lady Chatterley’s Lover merges as a key modernist text in which sexuality appears as both a promise of regeneration and a mechanism for the conservative reinscription of gender and social order.
Keywords sexual liberation, gendered power, hegemonic masculinity, female sexuality, modernism.
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-12-17
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.63706
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