Jilani Bano(1936) is an Indian Urdu fiction writer who has made the domestic and social life of women and their problems in all herliterary works. The time when she started her literary life was the last period of the rise of the Progressive movement. Hyderabad Deccan (India) was going through a period of political chaos and emergency.The feudal environment and society were ending.In her novels Aiwan-e-Ghazal (1976) and Barish-e-Sang(1985), she has made the subject of women's helplessness, psychological problems and exploitation in the decadent feudal society.Where women are considered speechless and second-class creatures. Her freedom is taken away by imposing unnecessary restrictions.They are considered as a mere means of sexual indulgence.Among the important theorists of feminist thought, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) has also described the oppression of women in the feudal system. Simon always remained in the forefront of the struggle for women's rights. In her book The Second Sex(1949), Simon discussed the existence of women and their exploitation. She explained the gender and sexual problems of women openly. According to Simon, women as a gender are considered as a despised and inferior thing. She is treated as a second-class creature, she is deprived of economic, political and sexual autonomy. A man considers a woman as his fief and asserts his right of ownership over her. In the feudal system, such words are used for men and women which prove that men are superior and women are inferior. According to Simon, this world has always belonged to men and there is only their domination. In the light of the ideas expressed by Simon de Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex, the novels Aiwan-e- Ghazal and Barish-e- Sang by Jilani Bano will be analyzed.

Refrences:

1.  Mushtaq Ahmed Vani,Urdu Adab Mein Tanisiat, (New Delhi: Educational Publishing House, 2013), p. 25

2.  Mubarak Ali, TariekhaurAurat (Lahore: Fiction House, 1996), p. 32

3.  Simon de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, (Aurat), Mutarjima Yasir Jawad, (Lahore: Fiction House, 2018), p. 521-719

4.  Mushraf Ali, Jilani Banoki Novel Nigari ka TanqediMutala’a (Delhi: Educational Publishing House, 2003),p. 61

5. Jilani Bano, Aiwen-e-Ghazal, (Nai Delhi: Jamia Nagar, 1992), p. 270

6. Ibid, Barish-e-Sang (Karachi:Maktaba-e-Daniyal, 1975), p. 97

7. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, (Aurat), p. 527

8. Jilani Bano, Aiwen-e-Ghazal, p.80

9. Ibid

10.       KishwarNaheed, AuratKhawabaurKhak key Darmian, (Lahore: Sang-e-meel Publication, 1995), p. 14

11.       Jilani Bano, Aiwen-e-Ghazal, p. 355

12.       Ibid, p. 41

13.       Ibid, p. 148

14.       Jilani Bano, Barish-e-Sang, p. 20

15.       Anees Haroon. FamanismAur Pakistani Aurat inAdhi AuratAurPoraAdab, Edited by AqeelaJaved, Hammad Rasool,Shazia Yasmeen, Shakeel Hussain Syed, (Lahore:Fiction House, 2017),p. 87

16.       Jilani Bano, Aiwen-e-Ghazal, p. 350

17. Shabnam Ara, Tanisiat Key MubahisAur Urdu Novel, (Delhi: Educational Publishing House, 2008),p. 14

18.       Jilani Bano, Aiwen-e-Gazal, p. 88

19.       Ibid, p.121

20.       Ibid, p. 36

21.       Ibid, p. 351

22.       Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, (Aurat), p. 329

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5. ____, Barish-e-Sang (Karachi:Maktaba-e-Daniyal, 1975

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