(Un)queering The Gender Identity in Faiq Mansab’s This House of Clay and Water

Abstract

The research delves into the concept, that heterosexual societies play fundamental role in curding the freedom of transgender and female counterpart. In heterosexual societies, transgender and female are victimized on the basis of their attitude towards sexuality and gender norms. This heterosexual concept is considered as normal in the heterosexual societies. According to Judith Butler, gender is constructed through repetitive performative norms of gender. Heterosexuality victimizes the transgender and female on the basis of hegemonic heterosexual normative notion.Queer theory provides plenty of space to question these norms that are seen in heterosexual societies as natural, irrespective of the fact whether they involve sexuality, gender or some other form of normality. Queer theory defines individual sexuality as fluid, fragmented, dynamic collectivity of possible sexualities.