Exploitation Of Women By Men

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Exploes the issue from a black feminist poiunt of view. Uses Alice Walker's novel POSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY as an example of women achieving greater justice if they work together. Focus on novel. Male fear of women's sexuality. Brutality against women as a transnational issue. Personal stories of the book.

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"In the Black feminist literary tradition, gender has become an important transnational issue. In other words, the same problems which confront women in one nation affect women in all nations. Those problems focus generally on the exploitation of women by men, by whites, and by the patriarchal systems which control most countries, their governments, and their socioeconomics. Accordingly, as in Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, addresses problems in a global context, recognizing that women, especially black women, will be able to achieve more justice if they work together, transcending national and cultural borders.

Walker's novel focuses on male brutality against women across cultural lines, specifically in the act of the "circumcision" of the clitoris. This is an act which is an ..."

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