The ideas of gender and sexuality are largely the construction of society. No biological, psychical, or economical destiny defines the figure that the human female takes on in society it is civilisation as a whole that elaborates this intermediary product between the male and the eunuch that is called feminine. One is not born, but rather becomes, woman. In her influential book The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir writes:

She argued over the role of the cultural construction of females in society. The most prominent critic on raising the feminine issues in society was the French philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir. It emerged with the emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1960s. The concepts of gender and sexuality became one of the significant parts of cultural phenomena in post- modern society. It may have coded differently in different cultures. Although, sexual practices, such as homosexuality, lesbianism, and bisexuality were always present in history. The views on sexuality have changed a lot over a period. But, before redefining the sexual orientations in Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, the article wants to mention some of the contemporary critical theories on sexualities. The novel is full of colorful characters with many sexual codes and conducts. Hanif Kureishi, with the publication of his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia has depicted a contemporary socio-cultural British society in reference to sexuality.

The buddha in suburbia