A Study of Gender Roles in Khale Sooske

The aim of this paper is to analyze the gender roles and how they are induced to the reader, the place given to women by the patriarchal society, the roles of wife and daughter, the male gaze and the relationship of woman and nature in one of Sobhi's stories called "Khale Sooske". The approach is based on the distinction between gender and sex and within the framework of feminism. It is mentioned that except for very minor references in three books no research has been done on this story. In this paper it is argued that creating gender roles and values related to it as well as how they are presented to the reader in different ways such as children's literature and internalizing them are all performed by the patriarchal institution in order to support and continue such systems within the social-cultural context.