Gender, Power and Patriarchy: Rewriting Women Identitity in Feminist Utopia

Abstract This paper examines how Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite (1992) and Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest (1997) interrogate the intertwined structures of gender, power, and patriarchy within speculative futures. Both works depict societies in which bodies especially women’s and the colonized are subjected to control, surveillance, and commodification. Yet, through their female and marginalized protagonists, they offer radical reimaginings of agency and resistance. Using feminist and postcolonial theoretical frameworks, the paper argues that Griffith and Padmanabhan reconfigure patriarchal paradigms not simply by reversing gender hierarchies, but by dismantling the epistemological foundations of power that sustain them.