Exploring Romance: Gendered Insights into Love is a multidisciplinary volume that investigates how romantic relationships have been constructed, idealized, challenged and re-imagined across literature and film. From the political maneuvering of Esther in ancient Persia to the moral dilemmas embedded in contemporary cinema, the book reveals how love, far from being a private feeling, is deeply entwined with issues of power, identity, freedom and resistance. By situating romance within the evolving context of gender dynamics, this collection invites readers to rethink familiar narratives and to...

The volume Rethinking Marriage through Gendered Lenses explores how matrimony, both as a social institution and as a private experience, has been portrayed and re imagined across literature, film and theater. By examining narratives by Jane Austen, Adam Mickiewicz, Gustave Flaubert, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sunetra Gupta, that span from Regency England to modern India, the contributors explore how marriage can simultaneously symbolize personal growth, national identity, social critique and cultural performance. Each chapter investigates gender roles and emphasizes marriage's dual nature as...