Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in

Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World, 8)

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.
Country USA
Brand Brill
Manufacturer Brill Academic Pub
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9789004167797
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World, 8)