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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Women and culture"”.
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"Taming" Feminism: Tracing Women and Culture Through Adaptation
… adaptation tells us as much about the cultures that adapt the plays as it does about Shakespeare. My particular focus in this thesis is film adaptations of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> and the messages that these adaptations send about cultural responses to feminism. The staging of …
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Gender and identity reflected in the works of Nawāl Al-Sa‘adāwī and Samīḥah Khrais
… Saadawi (1931-2021), Egyptian writer, physician, and activist and The Tree Stump: An Arabic Historical Novel (1998) by Samiha Khrais (1956-present), Jordanian writer whose works blur the lines between historiographies and fiction. In doing so, I analyze the ways in which these two writers depict …
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The impact of culture on the right of women to participate in public affairs : a comparative analysis of Swazi and Buganda Kingdoms
… time patriarchial African societies have denied women their rightful place in public life. There are certain cultural practices within these patriarchal societies, which impede the realisation of the human rights of women. Such cultural practices have impacted on the division of power and …