Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction Contributor(s): Tijani, Ishaq (Author) |
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ISBN: 900416779X ISBN-13: 9789004167797 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $111.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: This book investigates various forms of womens resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti womens fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf womenborn before or in the first half of the twentieth centuryas resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
Dewey: 892.7 |
Series: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.4" W x 9.7" (0.44 lbs) 166 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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Publisher Description: This book investigates various forms of women's resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women's fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women--born before or in the first half of the twentieth century--as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change. |