This paper analyzes how Asabe Kebir Usman deploys language in her novel entitled Destinies of Life (2014) to encode gender relations and ideologies; i.e. how she represents, in her literary piece, the relations between male and female characters and how these characters perceive and respond to social reality. Drawing its theoretical insights from Feminist Stylistics (henceforth, FS) (Mills, 1995/1998, Montoro, 2014) and the descriptive qualitative research design, this study specifically examines how the writer depicts the workings of patriarchal culture in relation to the Hausa womenfolk and demonstrates how she intentionally attempts to deconstruct male-dominance and its underlying androcentric ideologies with a view to discursively freeing them from the shackles of oppressive power structures. It argues that the narrative context of the novel is ontologically marked by the influence of two oppressive power structures: patriarchy and religion (Islam, to be precise) (Ouarodima, 2018, Allagbé, 2023). The findings reveal that the writer employs language to represent such patriarchal workings as arranged marriage, widowhood, motherhood, polygamy, power abuse, sexist oppression, objectification, jilting, etc. They also exude that she empowers the women (Maryam, Aisha and Nafisah) involved in the aforementioned workings. In fact, she depicts them as either intelligent or educated and cognitively or/and spiritually strong or powerful individuals. The study concludes that Usman, through her female characters, protests against the established social norms that constrain or sanction gender in her society