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@article{206281,
        author = {Dr Manisha},
        title = {Silence, Domesticity, and Emotional Labour: Everyday Feminist Consciousness in the Fiction of Zoya Pirzad},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {2},
        pages = {849-852},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=206281},
        abstract = {This article examines how feminist consciousness is articulated through silence, domesticity, and emotional labour in the fiction of Zoya Pirzad. Challenging feminist paradigms that privilege overt resistance and public activism, the study argues that Pirzad constructs an alternative model of everyday feminism rooted in women lived experiences within domestic spaces. Drawing on feminist theory and close textual analysis of Things We Left Unsaid and selected short stories, the article explores how emotional labour, manifested through caregiving, affective regulation, and the suppression of personal desire, operates as an invisible yet structuring force in women’s lives. Silence is analysed not as passivity but as a strategic mode of emotional survival and negotiation within patriarchal family structures. The article demonstrates that domestic space functions as a politically charged site where feminist consciousness emerges through routine, endurance, and reflective awareness. By foregrounding culturally specific forms of agency shaped by Iranian-Armenian contexts, this study contributes to global feminist literary criticism by expanding the conceptual boundaries of resistance beyond Western activist frameworks.},
        keywords = {Everyday Feminism; Emotional Labour; Silence; Domestic Space; Iranian Women’s Writing; Zoya Pirzad},
        month = {July},
        }