Indian Poetry in English by women writers has been giving birth to several issues related feminism. These poets are trying express their long-suppressed voice through these issues. However, most cases they posting fight against patriarchy. Patriarchy, as a male dominated social system, always seems hostile the liberation of suppressing identity. Modern successful disturbing this traditional min...

The concept of Patriarchy itself is not a contribution of feminist theories. Many social scientists in the nineteenth century wrote about it as a more civilized or complex form of organization compared to the primitive matriarchies. Engels referred to it as the earliest system of domination establishing that Patriarchy is “the world historical defeat of the female sex.” In this sense, it is sai...

Laura Fish’s Strange Music is a novel depicting the lives of three different women who are traumatized and disconnected from their children through lasting effects slavery. The slave system as well oppressive white patriarchal aftermaths confine Elizabeth, Kaydia, Sheba in such way that they not able to gain motherly guidance support. As result, perspective all protagonists towards changes dram...

PURPOSE The main purpose of this critical ethnography was to examines the process and discourses through which family caregivers experience while caring for their sick family member in a hospital. METHODS This was achieved by conducting in-depth interviews with 12 family caregivers, and by observing their caring activities and daily lives in natural settings. The study field was a unit for ne...

although the status of women in dramatic literature of resistance has always been criticized by critics and researchers of theatre in our country, there has been no change in the authors’ approach or their policy making. it seems that despite diagnosing the problem researchers and writers feel uncertain in how to tackle the problem and change the conditions. the main reason is the lack of knowl...

As a result of the HIV epidemic, masculinities in sub-Saharan Africa have become problematised. There is called for a transformation of masculinities. But what is strategies proposed by, on the one hand, some African theologians and, on the other hand, a local Pentecostal church. The fundamental difference is that the church seeks to transform masculinity within a patriarchal framework while th...

This paper is a discussion of machismo present massively in the Brazilian culture, as this culture is mainly patriarchal and chauvinist. This talk is drawn from research in progress on social representation of machismo in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by means of an ACL (Adjective Check List), and supervised at the Psychology Department of the University of Bologna. This discussion ai...

This article traces the allusions to the utopian cultural schemas of alchemy and hermetic philosophy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” in order to show that the mysterious anti-hero Carwin does not have to be cast in the role of gothic villain but instead can play the part of marginalised utopian idealist, whose dissident presence in the novel reveals tha...

Music is known to be one of the most visible forms of artistic expression through which traditional patriarchal values in society can be contested and challenged. However, it has not been recognised to what extent globalisation has enhanced or hindered the use of music as a tool for gender equality. Therefore, it is necessary to find linkages between gender and music in globalisation processes....