This is the first book on this subject in any language. This book consists of seven articles which describe and analyze images of Chinese women in a variety of genres, including folklore, poetry, fiction and drama, from early times to the present, in the works of both male and female writers. One of the main themes of this work is diversity; women in Chinese literature have a thousand faces and...

"The Great Gatsby" by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, an American male writer of the early 20th century and "Farewell My Concubine" Li Bihua, a female Hong Kong mid-to-late are two classical works in literary research. This dissertation analyses contrasts novels' characters from standpoint gender poetics. Our analysis demonstrates that writers have same perspectives on when researching objective ...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

The issue of women subjugation in the social, cultural, political and economic space has been still is a very active debate. Flora Nwapa her novel Efuru, stresses on dichotomies marital subjugation. Ama Ata Aidoo, Buchi Emecheta Darko their respective novels, Changes, Second Class Citizen Beyond Horizon, respectively, present these challenges marriages professional/work space. As such this pape...

This paper examines the use of the term “primary femininity” in current psychoanalytic thinking. The concept of primary feminity arose in reaction to early theories about female sexuality and development; based on a model of male development, these presented problems when applied to females. The author attempts to demonstrate the clinical advances that have resulted from the idea of primary fem...

The study is aimed at investigating the occurrence of writers cramp in office workers, drawn from ten major offices of Kanpur to determine the nature and relationship of various emotional factors in the development of this disability. The observations on writers cramp cases were compared with a group of normal and diseased controls. Out of a surveyed population of 3,325 office workers, there we...

The studies published here address issues related to this production, crossed by the female subjectivity and desire for literary social emancipation. Decoloniality depatriarchalization outline perspective. Among other clues offered reflection, we highlight contextualization of voices indigenous writers; relationship between writing political praxis; recovery ancestral memory its intergeneration...