Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 71
Page 26
... male canon , especially the male text's Manichean dis- course on colonialism , whose parallel in women's texts is gender . Several issues , however , raise serious questions about Stratton's strategy , deployment of gender as an ...
... male canon , especially the male text's Manichean dis- course on colonialism , whose parallel in women's texts is gender . Several issues , however , raise serious questions about Stratton's strategy , deployment of gender as an ...
Page 138
... male police force that dismisses domestic violence as a family affair , and the male - influenced women's organization that " does not wish to break up families . " This complacency toward violence against women is best explained by ...
... male police force that dismisses domestic violence as a family affair , and the male - influenced women's organization that " does not wish to break up families . " This complacency toward violence against women is best explained by ...
Page 213
... male children over female ones . But they also invoke tradition to insist that each gender has its own role to play in the community . They assert their belief that although a patriarchal system may favor male children , girl children ...
... male children over female ones . But they also invoke tradition to insist that each gender has its own role to play in the community . They assert their belief that although a patriarchal system may favor male children , girl children ...
Other editions - View all
Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in ... Katwiwa Mule No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic African Literature African women African writers Aidoo Alcestis Ama Ata Aidoo Amandina Lihamba Ampoma apartheid argue Arusha Arusha Declaration audience Bibi characters colonial Coloured identity consciousness contemporary context critical Dar es Salaam Dike's dilemma discourse dominant economic Edufa especially Eulalie Eulalie's female feminism feminist Foriwa Freda gender Gikandi historical husband Huyu ideological issues Kinaya Kirabira Kiswahili Kyerefaso Labaran language Lihamba Liking's Lina Ubani literary lives Maisa male Mama Ee Mkutano Mlama Mtua Mtua's Mwachofi Mwavita Nabikolo narrative nationalist NDEGE Ndlovu neocolonial Ngond Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nguzo Mama Onwueme Onwueme's oppression oral traditions Pambo patriarchal performance play playwright postcolonial problems prostitute psychological question racist reality relationship representation ritual role Rooi Ryanga's Shiba social change society South African space strategy struggle Sutherland symbolic Tanzania texts theater thematic tion Uganda ujamaa University Press Wazobia Werewere Western wife woman women writers words Xhosa Zinduko Zirimu