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Women Friendship and Oppression by Men in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
Zhyan Omar Hassan, Pshtiwan Faraj Mohammed
Feminism, which has many types and waves, is an awareness of women's oppression in society and within the family through conscious actions to change this injustice condition and achieve equality for women. This study uses feminist literary criticism to analyze Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. The study questions the oppression of women by men in Nigerian society as well as how women's friendship with each other develops their empowerment. It also demonstrates how the novel's female characters reflect the oppression of women. therefore, as the story develops, attempts will be made in order to show how African women are seen based on the real and good women as portrayed by Ifeoma and Beatrice. Moreover, it reveals that Adichie's method for confronting male oppression implies that, despite the difficulties they face, women are able to identify themselves and achieve their goals in the male-dominant world through education and friendship.
Volume 6 · Issue 1 · June 2019Postfeminist Criticism of Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom and Fen
Abdalla Fatah Balu, Saman Salah Hassan
Abstract This study is chiefly a postfeminist criticism of two of Caryl Churchill’s plays, Vinegar Tom (1976) and Fen (1982). In its introduction part, the topic, playwright and background information of the era are identified, and postfeminism as the theory of the paper is introduced in order to discover and analyze postfeminist issues in the texts of the plays and respond to the basic research questions as follows: what are the postfeminist elements that can be found in both texts? How do women represent the postfeminist new possibilities of individuality and sexuality? What are the implications of femininity and its perception in postfeminism? Do women celebrate the opportunity of career and financial independence or they retreat to domesticity? How do women embody postfeminist issues of marriage, family and children, and what is the position of men in that embodiment? Then, both plays are analyzed respectively in their chronological order through the use of postfeminist theory. The study is significant as it assists the readers to gain a better understanding of postfeminism, identify its elements in both texts, and analyze gender relations in the texts and in the contemporary life which helps both genders, specifically women, to comprehend equality, gender roles, domestic life, individual independence, comparison between women’s circumstances in the past and in the contemporary life, their various voices, the nature of new life, their relationship and cooperation with men, and the choice between their individual promotion and their familial duties or their coexistence.