The objective of this study is to re- read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" while focusing on female confinement and escape. This paper examines the female pathology as the site of contentions between the male order and female disorder, where resistance and revolt against the established regimes are sprawled across. The power struggles between men and women are explored as they relate to the sexist hegemony of the Victorian era. Moreover, through the prism of Susan Bordo's discourse on the language of the body, the gender- related and socio- culturally localized disorder in the text is reviewed in terms of women's protests against patriarchal institutions. From an analysis of female imprisonment to the possibilities of escaping the male- dominated discourse and cultures, while also elucidating the significance of the wallpaper and connecting the ending of the story with the exercise of women's powers, this article provides a new reading of Gilman's powerful short story.
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