Paper Title
Female Gender Role Reversal and Emerging Marriage Behaviours in Pakistan

Abstract
This study assumes that there is an interconnection between the increasing rate of khula cases (a woman�s right to seek divorce), postponement of marriage and the brewing trend of non-marital cohabitation in recent decades in Pakistan and their concomitants such as growing ratio of women getting higher education, becoming economically independent and getting exposure of the Western culture in the country. Women are redefining and reversing the traditional female gender perceptions and asserting their individuality which, as a result, is changing the traditional marriage behaviour and couple relationships. The study substantiates the assumptions through textual analysis of Mohsin Hamid�s novels Moth Smoke and How to Get Filth Rich in Rising Asia; the findings are corroborated by referring to the quantitative data from some major national survey reports on education, social and economic trends in the country. It is found that there is a strong interconnection between the two assumed sets of the concomitants in which education, economic independence and exposure of the Western culture work as determinants, too, for the transforming marriage behaviours in the country. Keywords - Female gender role reversal, marriage behaviour, family patterns, cultural transformation, Mohsin Hamid, Pakistan