... of the text, Katrak deals with "The Sistren Collective". Sistren is group of twelve working-class Jamaican women employed as street cleansers who in 1977 presented a drama called Downpression Get a Blow. The main characteristics of the drama is that it employs working-class women's daily language - it means that it is written in dialect with its own spelling - and it has "a vast ... and violence" (258). The second paper that I am going to analyse was written by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, its title is Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. In her study, Mohanty a...

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... and varied attitudes towards gender, we are labeled immediately from day one and we are treated differently depending on our sex. Walum (1977) carried out a study of parental attitudes towards male and female babies. His experiment consisted of mothers being shown "Beth" and "Adam", both 6-month-old babies, "Beth" being ... they don't seem to have the same self-discipline as girls therefore, to the teacher, it is important to keep their attention. Michelle Stanworth's study on A-level English classes, as documented by Mahony, concluded that for every four boys who participated in class di...

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It is important to understand that the ancient Greek comedy "Lysistrata" serves as an example of how, throughout Greek drama, civil unrest is often defined and framed in terms of gender and sexual conflict. For example, female choruses, the Furies, male supremacy, female protest and incest have all been used ... take advantage of the situations presented to him in the context of great epic stories and shape them to meet his own dramatic ends. In fact, Marshall based an entire study on the ways in which Aristophanes took advantage of the "regulations" of the ancient theater gatherings (only ...

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