Abhijit Maity

Structural violence, girl-child abuse, and embodied agency: reading Defiant Dreams by Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor

The article examines Sola Mahfouz’s memoir Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl who Risked Everything for Education (2023) through feminist discourse analysis, structural violence, religious masculinity, and embodied agency. It explores how Mahfouz’s testimony becomes a...