Literary Feminisms

Robbins, Ruth

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“…This can, in turn, resist the dominant proclivity of mythologizing or demonizing Muslim women without judging them on some ideological a-priori of western feminism. (Robbins, 2000). Failing to concede this, the postcolonial feminism is likely to fall short of understanding the lived realities and material concerns of Muslim women.…”

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Questioning the Monolithic Representation of Veiled Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis

Aftab

Hussain

2021

NUML JCI

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The article attempts to reflect and question the fixed and static representation of the practice of veiling in a personal narrative of an Afghan woman, entitled Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom, published in 2002 in the backdrop of Taliban’s rule with their proverbial misogyny and ruthlessness. Contextualized within the broader framework of postcolonial feminism, our argument attempts to locate a range of theoretical debates and concerns about veiling, both as a cultural practice and identity-marker, which is linked, directly or indirectly, with the position of Muslim women in their specific socio-political contexts. A critical reading of the contents of text has demonstrated that the discursive representations of veiling and veiled woman in the delimited text is not free from western condescension as it tends to relegate and marginalize Muslim women without appreciating their subjective and collective identity. Rather in representing Afghan woman’s life and agency in the backdrop of war and Talibanization, the narrative voice seems to flatten the myriad experiences of Afghan women by failing to offer a more nuanced and context-specific explanation of veiling vis-à-vis Afghan culture. The article concludes by emphasizing the need to create a more tolerant and inclusive feminist discourse that is both sensitive and responsive to the lived experiences and socio-historical realities of Afghan women in particular and Muslim women in general in their distinct cultural context.

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Questioning the Monolithic Representation of Veiled Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis

Aftab

Hussain

2021

NUML JCI

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“…Women were compelled to obey their husbands regardless of the treatment they received from them. And anyone who dared to reject these beliefs would be judged to be rough, bad and pagan (Robbins, 2000). Women were easily accused of adultery and divorced by their husband, whereas they had to prove men's adultery as well as bigamy, cruelty, incest or desertion.…”

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“…His writings showed clear physical and rational discrimination, he did not appreciate the woman devotion, sincerity and participation in man's life. Gynocritics believed that a male author cannot make an objective and a true description of woman character, because he had no experience of being female (Robbins, 2000). Hemingway associated femininity with passivity and in other cases they were innately malice stood behind men's destruction and decay.…”

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Negative treatment of women in selected short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Ernest Hemingway

Kadhim¹

2018

Afr Educ Res J

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The study aims to demonstrate the negative treatment of women and the purpose behind this treatment in selected short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Ernest Hemingway. Mansfield depicted her female characters as paralysed, invisible women or victims. She concentrated on representing the systematic and determined victimisation of women in a society with an intellectual belief in the survival of the fittest. Meanwhile, in Hemingway's stories appeared to be shallow-minded, heart-breakers or portents of destruction. They become the source of moral, emotional and mental anguish for male characters. Both authors contributed greatly, to modern literature, especially to female culture. They also helped the reader to understand the difficult conditions for women in Western society during their time.

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“…Thus, like the eponymous protagonist of Praxis, Franklin Fay Birkinshaw Davies Bateman Weldon Fox has taken on and lived through a succession of self-identities, becoming in the process not only a successful writer of fiction, but also a well-known social critic whose sometimes controversial views have not prevented her from recently being awarded a CBE. 2 1999), andRuth Robbins (2000). Attention is also directed to the work of such liberal feminist writers as Susan Moller Okin (1989), Onora O'Neill (2000, Marilyn Friedman (2003) and Martha Nussbaum (2006).…”

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Fay Weldon, liberal feminism and the praxis of <i>Praxis</i>

Foley

2007

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This article focuses on Fay Weldon’s novel, “Praxis”, as a means of exploring the concept of “liberal feminism”. “Praxis” charts the development of the eponymous main protagonist from a woman complicit in her own patriarchal oppression to a radical feminist activist and finally to the point where she comes to a liberal realisation of the nuances of individual women’s experiences and the complexity of emancipation. The novel may be regarded as a liberal feminist text in its emphasis on both gender equality and individual liberty, and in its insistence that society may be positively reformed within the paradigm of the liberal state and without resorting to radical extremism. Published in 1978, the novel anticipates the later shift in feminist thinking from an exclusive concern with women’s rights to a more inclusive liberal vision of human rights

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Literary Feminisms

Cited by 24 publications

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Questioning the Monolithic Representation of Veiled Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis

Questioning the Monolithic Representation of Veiled Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis

Negative treatment of women in selected short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Ernest Hemingway

Fay Weldon, liberal feminism and the praxis of <i>Praxis</i>

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