Browsing by Subject "Feminism"
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Evolution of feminism in English literature from 19th to 20th century
(Brac University, 2022-01)This thesis will be concerned with the evolution of feminism in English literature from the 19th to 20th century. Feminism encompasses social movements, political movements and ideologies that aim to define and create ... -
Fundamentalism and censorship in South Asia: Mass misapprehension of Nasrin, Murugan & Rushdie
(Brac University, 2022-01)Religious Fundamentalism and censorship in South Asia have incapacitated progressive authors like Taslima Nasrin, Salman Rushdie and Perumal Murugan resulting in a restricted dystopia deterring freedom of thought. Mass ... -
Gender, class, and politics in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls
(Brac University, 2022-05)Theatre has always been a platform for expressing what cannot be expressed through mere words coming out of one’s mouth. From the beginning of theatre, playwrights have tried to bring out issues concerning love, betrayal, ... -
Hair tied back
(Brac University, 2023-05)Hair Tied Back is a story inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s “The Book of Martha,” a short story about a protagonist who converses with God to come up with a new method of encouraging humans to find joy, hope and determination ... -
Identity, self-realization and the embodiment of womanhood in Henrik Ibsen’s Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler
(Brac University, 2022-06)Henrik Ibsen wrote about 19th century sensitive, taboo topics. His work addresses aspects like corruption, psychological struggles, women’s rights, repressive social beliefs and such. Although Ibsen was never a self-proclaimed ... -
Intersecting feminism: gender, identity, and liberation in their eyes were watching God and The God of Small Things
(Brac University, 2023-12)Women are not given their due social rights from time immemorial. To investigate the deplorable condition of women, two novels of different social contexts, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The God ... -
Literature as a liberating space for 19th century women: a close reading of the selected works of Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte and Kate Chopin
(Brac University, 2019-12)This thesis fundamentally aims to look at the question of the potency of literature as a space through which women can assert their existence. Literature has been used as a force for social reformation and has been used ... -
Positionality and transformative knowledge in conducting 'feminist' research on empowerment in Bangladesh
This article is based on the experiences and reflections of a group of researchers in Bangladesh (of which we were members) studying women's empowerment. We investigate the kinds of epistemological and ethical dilemmas ... -
Power and position: exploring the post-colonial women and men in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
(Brac University, 2022-06)Women have always been the object of oppression from the very beginning. Due to men and women having different natural biological structures, it is believed that they are assigned with different roles in society. As ... -
Prevailing non-normativities: exploring gender norms, transgressive desires and identities in literature by Muslim women writers of the subcontinent
(BRAC University, 2014-08-14)Prevailing Non-Normativities: Exploring Gender Norms, Transgressive Desires and Identities in Literature by Muslim Women Writers of the Subcontinent is an exploration of essentialist gender norms, transgressive desires, ... -
Sexual politics and rape in the selected works of Shashi Deshpande: a feminist Perspective
(Brac University, 2019-12)Since the early revolutionary period of the first wave of feminist movement in India in 1850, women have come a long way with the feminist liberation movements continuously striving to bring in reformation in various ... -
Subversive images of women in medieval English literature: a selective reading
(BRAC University, 2008)It is commonly assumed that medieval society is hostile to women’s power. Women are continuously contained and constrained by the patriarchal norms of medieval Europe to strengthen the heroic ideals of masculinity, while ... -
William Shakespeare: feminist strains
(BRAC University, 2017-07)In the Elizabethan era women faced huge barriers in their path to asserting their individual identities in society. This trend of an oppressive patriarchal society inhabited by ‘correctly’ submissive women was reflected ...
