A Curse or Blessing? Runaway women’s Striving in Dark Beliefs

Abstract

The belief on women’s persona for social hate by ‘men dominant societies’ is one with a long history. The trope that women are victims of social disgust was evident in criminal discourse across traditional context; in particular, we explore how such narratives substantiate in untaught cultures where women lives are ‘portrayed as blessing’ but ‘treated as curse’. We explore socially constructed norms to victimize women which forced them to run away from domestic vindictiveness but they find identical treatment in other lodgings of same dark culture. We used purposive sampling to find affected women from different registered shelter homes of Sindh that is the largest urbanized province in Pakistan. We used thematic content analysis to uncover the emergent causes of runaway females. The findings indicate that forced interchange marriages irrespective of age differences, vadira-governing system with no appeal rights, socio-ethical illiteracy and domestic violence are major causes of women’s runaway. Moving across transactional contexts and times, various permutations of criminal discourses are highlighted that stimulated the dark side of pretense civilized society to indulge the image of a dignified women relationship with their dark beliefs and latent animosity. Our result suggests that there is a need for socializing intensive ways to maintain the women reverence in the risky environment of dark beliefs in order to make women as main contributor of socioeconomic progress rather social curse.