A Call for Resurgence: Feminist Plan of Actions in Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price and Joys of Motherhood

Vol-3 | Issue-07 | July 2018 | Published Online: 05 July 2018    PDF ( 182 KB )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1312329
Author(s)
S. Selvakumar 1; Arul Jayraj S. Joseph 2

1PhD Research Scholar, Research Department of English, St. Joseph’s College, Trichy (India)

2HOD and Associate Professor, Research Department of English, St. Joseph’s College, Trichy (India)

Abstract

Feminism aims at addressing the concerns of women across the world. It offers personal, philosophic and political ideologies, theories, strategies and movements to revamp the system that ostracize and subjugate women in every sphere of human society. It attempts to disclose the male chauvinism and the cultural constructions that are embedded in social life and in the literary texts. It analyses the colonial mindset of male sex, the prejudice, and offers effective tools to obtain emancipation for women and opens up the new avenues for women to explore. It doesn‟t aim for a world of exclusivism rather strikes a balance to include everyone despite sex difference and calls for building a healthy human society.

Keywords
Emancipation, Feminism, Patriarchy, Strategies, and Violence
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