Abstract

The concern for nature centric discourse had been foreseen several years ago, Noam Chomsky remarked, “nature is neither an infinite source nor an infinite sink,” likewise, Simone de Beauvoir’s famous argument that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” These revelations are misleadingly interpreted by marked driven world as a mere rhetoric, accounting more synthesized and unjust exploitation of both, women and nature.

The extremely volatile and susceptible conditions in conflict affected Kashmir makes women and nature more prone to various kinds of exploitation and annihilation. The tyrant waves of war along with male dominated socio-political narratives have made Kashmiri women to endure the unrecognized pain. Similarly, the present civilizations civilized ecocide of natural resources, has pushed this natural wealth to the verge of extinction. On the one hand, the valleys natural recourses are converted into military training centers, on the other hand, Women caught in the persistent web of violence are facing daily crimes of all sorts. Hence, it becomes contemporaneous to snapshot these exploitations through the lens of ecofiministist discourse. Therefore, the present paper is an attempt to examine Mirza Waheed’s novel, the Book of Gold Leaves and to show how nature and women have been made as commodities in conflict torn Kashmir.