Resistance and Reconstruction in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen

ABSTRACT

The contemporary women writers of the world are preoccupied with exposing the various reasons behind the gender subjugation even after the emergence of scientific growth, which, undoubtedly, has abolished many irrational beliefs of human beings.  The women literary writers and critics have formed a lot number of feminist schools.  These writers have the common opinion that women are not given fair treatment by the social frame work of any country.  At the beginning stage, the women felt their absence in politics; hence they fought for the equality in politics.  Later, they felt the mere political equality is not enough to make sure of women’s emancipation.  So that, they started to be obsessed with their economic dependency on men.  Further, they assumed that the economic independence would provide what they had expected.  Some of the revolutionary women of the twentieth century avowed that women are marginalized mainly because of the deep rooted psychology of human beings. Simone De Beauvoir is a fine example for this type of women writers.  According to them sensibility of women is purely an external force, which affects the entire social structure as that is obviously biased.  The modern women writers have got one more conviction that the biological difference between men and women is the basic reason for all sorts of sufferings of the women right from their civilization.  These writers consider the process of civilization as a curse upon women, because many layers of invisible webs have been created.  These webs have been disguised as tradition and culture.  No society is exceptional for this matter.

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