@article{Hossain_2026, title={Gendered Violence, Class Power, and Cultural Resistance: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of Two Women’s Narratives in Jana Sanskriti}, volume={6}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.6.2.3}, DOI={10.22161/ijllc.6.2.3}, abstractNote={<jats:p>The paper examines Sima Ganguly’s “Either you do this work out of love, or not at all” and Pritilata Mondol’s “The Needs and Norms of Sansar” to map how patriarchal domination, class relations, and ideological control operate within domestic and social life. Using a Marxist-feminist framework, the study argues that both narratives expose the family as a key site where capitalist patriarchy reproduces gendered subordination through emotional regulation, restricted mobility, symbolic violence, and the internalization of male authority. Ganguly’s account unveils how patriarchal power persists even within educated, middle-class households, where surveillance and moral policing structure women’s desires and choices. Her reflections highlight how ideological conditioning functions more forcefully than material deprivation, producing psychic violence that molds female subjectivity across generations. Mondol’s narrative, conversely, foregrounds women’s collective resistance against alcoholism, domestic abuse, and economic exploitation, highlighting the political potential of reproductive labor and community solidarity. Across both texts, Jana Sanskriti’s theater emerges as a counter-hegemonic space that transforms private suffering into public critique, enabling consciousness-raising and collective action. The article presents these testimonies not only to critique patriarchal-capitalist structures but also to articulate alternative modes of agency grounded in cultural resistance. In examining how women negotiate, internalize, and resist domination, the study emphasizes the necessity of integrating cultural praxis into Marxist-feminist debates on gendered violence, class power, and social transformation.</jats:p>}, number={2}, journal={International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture}, publisher={AI Publications}, author={Hossain, Dr. Md Nasir}, year={2026}, pages={14–26} }