Can't a Girl have it All? Interrogating Gender Paradigms in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Girl Who Can and Other Stories.

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dc.contributor.authorMpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-03T11:49:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-03T11:49:43Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to explore Ama Ata Aidioo’s (2002) work for the purpose of interrogating how African feminists and/or women writers represent challenges facing African women, as well as suggested or implied solutions to their problems. The analysis interprets four stories: “Lice”, “Comparisons”, “The Girl Who Can”, and “Heavy Moments” in an attempts to identify elements of women’s oppressions under patriarchy rule, and to what extent women can challenge that system. Although some female characters in these stories have proved to challenge the system and subverted men’s hierarchy, the underlying implications as to what a woman ought to do to overcome the oppression leaves a lot to be desired. The article attempts to disentangle Aidoos’s narratives, and in the process of disentangling it demonstrates newly established feminist constructs that ought to be subverted.en_US
dc.identifier.issn9856-0227
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4708
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTanzania Journal of Population Studies and Developmenten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries22:1&2;
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_US
dc.subjectfeminism, deconstruction, socialization, social constructs, patriarchy, genderen_US
dc.titleCan't a Girl have it All? Interrogating Gender Paradigms in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Girl Who Can and Other Stories.en_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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