This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional customs which deny identity and welfare to women and his literary endeavor to unravel the patriarchal legacy in his In the Chest of a Woman. It examines the dictates of patriarchy that militate against females’ emancipation and lay a foundation for their marginalization and oppression. It attempts to read Mawugbe’s call for gender balance and equal treatment for men and women in modern society. Two sexist practices are targeted: the denial of inheritance rights to female children and the capital punishment of those who go against tradition by becoming pregnant out of customary wedlock. The study asserts that if modern African society should experie...
Feminist writers have over the years portrayed patriarchy as the major and real source of female exp...
This paper examines the legacy of Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in ...
This article analyses the presentation of women characters by male writers such as Okot p’Bitek, Ngu...
This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional custom...
This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional custom...
Social imbalances between men and women are the bedrock of injustices women encounter in the world, ...
Patriarchy is one of the crippling limitations that women face in contemporary societies despite the...
The various cultures of the world embody customs and traditions through which they display their spe...
The struggle for equality for all and the abolition of discriminatory, harmful cultural practices af...
This article treats the various aspects of the resistance mechanisms devised by Ngugi wa Thiongo in ...
Published ArticleLike most literature around the world, African literature initially portrayed women...
A recent United Nations Study of women’s position showed that women do two third of all the work wit...
African women continue to scramble for leftovers and crumbs as far as participation in the developme...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
For many years, African women have been blaming men for the inferior position of the female gender i...
Feminist writers have over the years portrayed patriarchy as the major and real source of female exp...
This paper examines the legacy of Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in ...
This article analyses the presentation of women characters by male writers such as Okot p’Bitek, Ngu...
This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional custom...
This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional custom...
Social imbalances between men and women are the bedrock of injustices women encounter in the world, ...
Patriarchy is one of the crippling limitations that women face in contemporary societies despite the...
The various cultures of the world embody customs and traditions through which they display their spe...
The struggle for equality for all and the abolition of discriminatory, harmful cultural practices af...
This article treats the various aspects of the resistance mechanisms devised by Ngugi wa Thiongo in ...
Published ArticleLike most literature around the world, African literature initially portrayed women...
A recent United Nations Study of women’s position showed that women do two third of all the work wit...
African women continue to scramble for leftovers and crumbs as far as participation in the developme...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
For many years, African women have been blaming men for the inferior position of the female gender i...
Feminist writers have over the years portrayed patriarchy as the major and real source of female exp...
This paper examines the legacy of Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in ...
This article analyses the presentation of women characters by male writers such as Okot p’Bitek, Ngu...