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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...