scholarly journals The Thematic Analysis of Scourge of Dowry in Dina Mehta’s Brides Are Not For Burning

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Preethi Devi
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
International Award ◽  
Patriarchal Society

Dina Mehta is a prolific writer, has distinguished herself as a playwright for the stage, radio, and television. She has been awarded several prizes, notably an international award from the BBC. He daringly expressed the women issues in her plays. Her play Brides are not for Burning bring out the post-colonial issue related to the existence of women in the country. It reveals the fact that women are still burning in a flames under a patriarchal system. The issue of dehumanization is dealt here with in realistic consideration. This paper aims to bring out the scourge of dowry and how it is role played in the patriarchal society.

Representing school arson in Kenya: An analysis of newspaper reporting

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Hildah Oburu ◽  
Bronwyné Coetzee ◽  
Leslie Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Violence ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
Significant Attention

Arson is a recurrent problem in Kenyan secondary schools. Although school violence – notably gun violence – has received significant attention, there has been less academic attention paid to school arson, especially in Africa. This study explores how newspaper reports in Kenya framed school arson and links these framings to broader questions about the understanding and production of Kenyan identity. A thematic analysis of 334 newspaper reports revealed multiple understandings of school arson. Print media discourse afforded journalists an opportunity to make a commentary on the post-colonial globalized Kenyan society. We discuss the implications of this for understanding post-colonial media in Africa.

Female Authors under the Mask of a Male Pseudonym - Some Approaches to Revealing Authors’ Gender

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Roberta Matkovic ◽  
Tanja Habrle
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
European Society ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
The Individual

A patriarchal society has very clear and rigid norms. Its frame does not allow one to move out of it, and a mode of behaviour which attempts any change is severely punished. This kind of society has strict written and unwritten rules, and it seems that the second kind are more harmful and painful for the individual than the first. In 19th century, European society was strongly patriarchal, and a phenomenon which confirms this is the fact that many female writers published their works under a male pseudonym. A patriarchal system attempts to prevent women from any artistic and scientific form and expression, as they are labelled as less intellectually able or talented, but by choosing a male pseudonym they found a way to reach their goal. An author writes about what he knows, what surrounds him and/or what he notices, feels and thinks. Considering that a patriarchal society system is highly defined, female and male points of view, their angles of reflection and aims are obviously different. In novels, choice of character and situation and the description of such, can easily reveal an author’s gender. These approaches will be illustrated by analysing the work of Vincenza Speraz, who lived in North Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries, and published her works under the pseudonym Bruno Sperani.

scholarly journals Starting From a Ground Level: A Hope of Reconciliation in Lucy’s Silence and Subjection in Disgrace

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1452-1456
Author(s):  
Xue Chen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Men ◽  
White Woman ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Patriarchal Society

This paper focuses on Lucy’s double predicaments as a white woman in post-apartheid South Africa in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace. As an heir of settler history and as the other to men in the patriarchal society, Lucy becomes a scapegoat of history and is raped by three black men. With a post-colonial interpretation of Lucy’s rape, this paper interprets Lucy’s silence about her rape and subjection to the blacks as her efforts to achieve a peaceful relationship with the blacks. Her determination to love the child bred in hatred by the black rapists shows a hope of reconciliation between whites and blacks through forgiveness and love.

scholarly journals Concept of Fallenness and Patriarchy in Anuradha Sharma Pujari’s Novel “Kanchan”

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Anamika Devi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Practices ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Woman Character ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Fallen Women ◽  
To Come

Patriarchy places women in a marginalised position. Women always bare same feeling and same status of their lives in patriarchal oppression and exploitation. Men often speak about virtues and vices of women and on the basis of that categorise them as chaste or unchaste. Women in patriarchal society should be pure to get societal honour. The society decides what a woman should do, how a woman should behave and these views are the cultural determinant of a society or a community. If a woman challenges these lessons of morality, she will get the identity of fallen woman in a patriarchal society. The novelist Sharma Pujari through the portrayal of Kanchan as a fallen woman does not want to condemn her fundamental disorder but attempts to expose the exploitation and oppression that exist in sexual practices and thereby wants to challenge it. A patriarchal society mirrors some cultural views and attitudes of sexuality. On the basis of these norms a woman is relegated to the rank of fallen woman. The man being the superior section of the society proves his male power in the emotional, physical and material sphere of a woman’s life. This power of patriarchal authority determines the fallenness of a woman and thereby deprives her from availing the pleasures and securities which are only permissible for a wife. The culturally constructed feminine myth looks at her as an exception. People’s psyche is moulded by this cultural affinities constructed by patriarchal system. The novel Kanchan describes the discrimination on gender relation and sexual responses between two genders that exists in a patriarchy. Anuradha Sharma Pujari narrates the complexities in the life of the woman character who tries to come out of her destitute situation by using her body. Adopting a feminist perspective this research article attempts to discuss the construction of the idea “fallen women” by patriarchy and the experiences and struggles of the marginalised protagonist Kanchan in the novel Kanchan.

scholarly journals Narrativas de Trabalhadoras Rurais: a Construção da Subalternidade, os Espaços Hierarquizados e a Dominação Colonial

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (97) ◽  
pp. 442-465
Author(s):  
Fernanda Junia Dornela ◽  
Cintia Rodrigues de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Coffee Farming ◽  
Empirical Material

Abstract In this research, our aim is to analyze how gender relations are manifested in the narratives of women rural workers, in coffee farming in the Cerrado Mineiro Region, in a post-colonial perspective. It is a qualitative research, the empirical material of which consists of narrative interviews conducted with 14 rural coffee workers in the municipalities of Patrocínio, Carmo do Paranaíba and Monte Carmelo, in the state of Minas Gerais. The empirical material was submitted to the thematic analysis technique. The results suggest that gender relations are expressed through inheritances of colonialism, which constitute the themes identified: (1) constructed subordination; (2) hierarchical spaces; and (3) colonial domination.

scholarly journals Representation of Female Figure in Sidhwa’s “The Bride”

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Hira Ali ◽  
Tabinda Khawer ◽  
Noor-ul- Ain
Keyword(s):  
Female Figure ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
History Of

The research aims at examining the essence of patriarchy in the ill-treatment of post-colonial women. Women were deliberately manipulated in that era. This highlights the absurdity of patriarchal society as a governing power. The ruthless customs, honor of tribes and word of shame has only meanings for women. A patriarchal society like Pakistan which is repressive and oppressive gives privilege to men and allows their harsh treatment toward women, they are considered inferior to men and are sexually oppressed. This work covers the ways of Sidhwa with which she has applied the feministic approach in her work through gynocritic lense and concludes the excellence of the writer by which she has presented such a marvelous piece of English fiction in the history of Pakistan. We will also make an effort to depict the suppressed, objective, gendered and marginalized journey of Sidhwa’s woman.

scholarly journals Oppression towards Women as Depicted in Marge Piercy’s Selected Poems

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-463
Author(s):  
Diksita Galuh Nirwinastu
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Marge Piercy ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Barbie Doll ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
The Voice

This present study would like to examine how women are oppressed by the patriarchal society in the selected poems written by one of the contemporary American female writers, Marge Piercy. Marge Piercy is particularly known as a female writer as well as a feminist activist. She has written numerous works, including novels and poetry books, which explore issues about women. Piercy’s poems are mostly known to be simple and vivid.  Observing the use of figurative language and the diction in Piercy’s selected poems, entitled “A Work of Artifice” and  “Barbie Doll”, in the light of feminist criticism,  this article would like to show how oppression is done towards women and how it results in the silencing, shaping, and subordinating of women. In the poems, the oppression is mostly operated subtly and systematically through various cultural institutions, such as education, family, and media. Women, as a result, are trained to believe in the voice of the patriarchal society and to behave following what the patriarchal society demands. The long-practiced oppression has hindered women to develop to their fullest as human beings. The poems can be read as a medium to voice women’s experiences and to criticize the established patriarchal system and its oppression towards women.

scholarly journals Thematic Analysis in The Edible Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
S Udhayakumar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
World View ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Attitude ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Social Novel ◽  
Self Discovery

The Edible Women is one of the most outstanding novels of Margret Atwood which has set a big milestone in her writing career. The novel leaves multiple of interpretations since its subject touches the most sensitive and deepest chord of the society. The novel is more a social novel that it deals with the major issue of gender roles and relationships in general. Atwood has used the novel to magnify even the minute errors and ills of the society which is not touched by other writers of her time. She has clearly portrayed the actual problems of Canadian women of 1960s who have been suppressed by the patriarchal society. She has tried to name their problems which have no names and moreover her approaches to those problems are strange and new.And hence, the novel is called as a proto-feminist novel. Beyond the feministic point of view, the story conveys various themes such as self-discovery, marriage, love, sex, modernity, cultural attitude, relationship and many. Besides, the novel is filled with various symbolic and metaphorical elements that support the author’s presupposition of her world view. Therefore, the paper has made an inquiry in to various thematic elements and symbols to explore the hidden meanings bound with in the story.

scholarly journals THE ‘IRRATIONAL’ FEMALE WAS INVENTED BY THE PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Male Dominated

The main research problem that will be addressed is the reasons why a patriarchal system of law developed. This will be addressed by looking at the shifts in natural law, the rise of positivism and modernity and thus a restricted jurisprudence all of which contributed to a male dominated system to the exclusion of females.

scholarly journals The female Klebun of Madura within the power constellation of the patriarchy: A post-colonial feminism perspective

Simulacra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Aminah Dewi Rahmawati ◽  
Emy Susanti ◽  
Bagong Suyanto
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Dynastic Politics

During the Indonesian reformation era, Madurese politics began to see a notable increase in women participation. One indicator is the increasing number of female village chiefs, locally referred to as Klebun, who occupies the highest leadership position within Madurese villages. An in-depth interview with two female Klebuns and three informants revealed that female Klebun in Madura represents women and extended kinship interests in continuing dynastic politics. The female Klebun experienced a subaltern form of relationship with the largely patriarchal system they find themselves in, marked by coercion, threats, pressure and lack of freedom in their candidacy and village leadership. The lack of any communicated objections from the female population over these repressive actions is due to the strong dominance of patriarchal culture in Madurese society. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The primary data used are the results of interviews with five informants. Secondary data used consist of relevant scientific journals, articles, and books. This research is conducted under the framework of postcolonial feminism.

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