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Victimization and Asymmetric Gendered Power Relations: A Linguistic Investigation of Harassment Complaints Registered in Lahore
2020
Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan
This paper presents an investigation of the linguistic choices employed in harassment complaints submitted to the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women and four police stations located in Lahore during 2017-2018. In a patriarchal society such as Pakistan's, where a woman's honour epitomizes the whole family's honour (Atakav 2015, 52; Sharlach 2008, 96), sexual harassment, a stigmatizing issue is hardly ever reported (Ali and Kramar 2015, 241). This paper, using Feminist Critical Discourse
doi:10.46521/pjws.027.01.0037
fatcat:vsallw4llnajpfg4bo2flpi4oq