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Gendered Geographies: Marriage, Mobility, and Female Agency in Wife, Desirable Daughters, and The Unaccustomed Earth

Author(s) Dr. Suma H.P
Country India
Abstract Abstract
This study examines the intersection of marriage and geographic migration as forms of spatial technologies that discipline the subjectivity of women in South Asian diasporic fiction. It considers Bharati Mukherjee's Wife (1975), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Desirable Daughters (2002), and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Unaccustomed Earth (2008) to illustrate the experiences of immigrant women moving through domestic enclosures created by transnational patriarchy. The immigrant home, which has been the subject of his writing for three decades, becomes a microcosm of cultural reproduction and gendered oppression, a reflection of subcontinental power relations in American cities. This study examines how marriage as a spatial governance mechanism is negotiated by women's agency in various ways of transiting: physical relocation, psychological disconnection, narrative self-authorship, and strategic domestic decisions. Together, these three violent ruptures, retrospective redraftings of family histories, and spatial (re)calibrations of women’s professional and romantic aspirations demonstrate how women assert spatial autonomy in structurally constrained spaces. Theoretically conceptualising the narrative form as a feminist cartographic practice, this article explores how these texts engage with the theoretical work of Doreen Massey and Henri Lefebvre and address the material immobility brought about by the narrative form through internal sovereignty. Located at different stages of South Asian American migration, the works trace a continuum of diasporic feminism that reclaims agency as a continual, sometimes contested, process of redeploying gendered borders.
Keywords Keywords: Feminist Geography, Female Agency, Domestic Space, Transnational Marriage, Spatial Mobility, Narrative Cartography, Immigrant Subjectivity, Gendered Enclosure
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-23
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