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Gita Mehta is one of the most significant writers in Indian Writing in English whose writing mainly deals with Indian culture, tradition and political condition of India. Women are confined in the name of religion, customs, society and tradition. Most of Gita Mehta's female protagonists want to break such social taboos and establish an identity in the society. A River Sutra is her second novel which was published in 1993. Mehta has touched up the sense of male dominance, racial discrimination and one's continuous search for identity in this novel. This paper will show how the novel A River Sutra can be read from a feministic perspective. The key argument of the paper deals with women's hardship, suffering and self-identity in the patriarchal society.

Storm in Chandigarh is a work by Nayantara Sahgal, an Indian English writer with elite political lineage. She is the second daughter of Vijayalakshmi Pandit, the sister of the first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru. Nayantara Sahgal was born in an aristocratic family in New Delhi with a strong political clout. Being part of a family at the centre of Indian polity, Nayantara Sahgal has the first hand experience of witnessing some of the most talked about political events of her times. From the literary point of view too, her maternal uncle Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, who himself was a great English writer, and Krishna Hutheesingh (younger sister of Vijayalakshmi Pandit) who was a great exponent amongst English writers from India, establish the genetic linkage to Nayantara Sahgal's emergence as a prodigy in English novelists from India. Nayantara Sahgal was married twice – first to Gautam Sahgal, who was a British official in pre-independence India, and was totally absorbed in British culture. After that she started to live with Mangat Rai, while both of them were married to other persons. It was a kind of outrageous act in those times and traditionally against the societal norms. Thus, Nayantara Sahgal to some extent was ahead of her times – at least in breaking the established norms of her times as far as man and woman relationship was concerned.

Feminist research methodology is a subject that is often under wide debate, with both theorists and researchers offering various guidelines for conducting feminist research. Current writings in the field suggest that feminist research is moving towards pluralistic models that acknowledge and take into account the fact that feminism is not monolithic in its politics or philosophy. However, a review of the literature suggests that, within this pluralistic framework, there are some common principles of feminist research that cut across the different methodologies used in social science. The focus of this article is to discuss these common principles of feminist research and illustrate how they guided the development of a cognitive scale for functional bowel disorders.

On the one side, as a male, Tennessee Williams showed a strong awareness on feminist issues because of his special personal experience, which can be proved by his many plays portraying women. On the other side, he expressed admiration to the muscular beauty of men. A Streetcar Named Desire can be seen as a play to display the conflict in Williams' mind and to demonstrate his deep sympathy to women. By constructing the confrontation between hero and heroine, Tennessee succeeded guiding readers to the ideal readers to share what in his mind. In this thesis, the author will use the theory of Reader-Response Criticism to explore Tennessee's awareness on feminist issues, and display how he converted the real readers to the ideal ones step by step.

The article presents an analysis of the implementation of the category of intertextuality in the novel «Affinity» (1999) by the British writer Sarah Ann Waters. The aim of the work was to trace how the intertextual dialogue with the Victorian literature contributes to the formation of the feminist issues of the work. It is revealed that the main pretexts when creating a novel for Waters were «Little Dorrit» by Charles John Huffam Dickens, «Aurora Leigh» by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, «The Turn of the Screw» by Henry James, and novels by William Wilkie Collins. «Affinity» has elements of Gothic narrative, a detective, a sensational novel, the Newgate novel, picaresque novel, contributing to the formation of women's issues. The dialogue with Victorianism allows Waters to raise issues of gender inequality in the past and present, the exploitation of women, and the rights of individuals to realise their sexual identity. For Waters, turning to Victorianism is a way to draw attention to issues that, according to the writer, are still topical in British culture, such as sexuality, class and gender.

From the very first description of the two kingdoms on an island in Lochhead's play, a striking difference between them is perceived: England is described in terms of the order established and prosperity granted by its intelligent monarch, Elizabeth, whereas the Scottish insecure and problematic position is epitomized through the personal characteristics of its ruler – a beautiful lady, a foreigner, most commonly perceived as the last Queen of an independent Scotland, making an effort to rule the divided country. Inclined towards Catholicism, politically inexperienced and unskilled, Mary fails to recognize the fact well known to her powerful Protestant cousin, Elizabeth – a proper queen has to rule the kingdom with her head, and not with her heart. Written for the performance of the Communicado Theatre Company in 1987, as a tribute to the fourth hundred anniversary of Mary, Queen of Scots' death, Lochhead's play establishes the connection between the burning political issues in XVI and XX century Scotland. By relying on the critical insights of Finlayson, Greenblatt, Gonzales, Butler and Lochhead herself, the paper examines the nationalist and feminist issues in the play, as well as their relevance for the understanding of the Scottish identity. Key words: nationalism, feminism, stereotype, Reformation, Protestantism, Catholicism

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE: LIMITS AND CAVEATS -- 1. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral? -- 2. Loving Future People -- 3. What Can Progress in Reproductive Technology Mean for Women? -- 4. Are Pregnant Women Fetal Containers? -- PART II: ABORTION AND THE RIGHT NOT TO REPRODUCE -- 5. Is Abortion Murder? (with Michael Tooley) -- 6. Abortion, Potentiality, and Conferred Claims: A Response to Langerak -- 7. Abortion and the Argument from Convenience -- 8. Abortion, Forced Labor, and War -- 9. Abortion and the Husband's Rights: A Reply to Teo -- PART III: NEW WORLDS: COLLABORATIVE REPRODUCTION -- 10. The Morality of New Reproductive Technologies -- 11. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? -- 12. Another Look at Contract Pregnancy -- 13. Children of Choice: Whose Children? At What Cost? -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to address how recent neuroscience affects traditional feminist issues. A distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, sociomedical scientists, and feminist scholars explore such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a distinctive þfeminine' ethics? Is the self constituted by brain activities independent of society? Should addressing issues about sexuality and intersex conditions lead to changes in methodology? What do recent technological advances in the brain sciences teach us about such questions? Taken together, these essays challenge and expand upon some of the more sensational findings of neuroscience, and suggest new strategies and topics for research.

This is the first comprehensive history of the struggle to win public acceptance of contraceptive practice. James Reed traces this remarkable story from its beginnings, carefully documenting the roles of the diverse interests that supported birth control, including feminists, eugenicists, and physicians, and providing a unique account of the struggles of such pioneers as Margaret Sanger, Robert Dickinson, and Clarence Gamble to win the support of organized medicine, to change laws, to open birth control clinics, and to improve birth control methods. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Women on the margins : honouring multiple and intersecting cultural identities Sandra Collins -- Mom's the word : attachment theory's role in defining the "good mother" Lynda R. Ross -- Male violence against women and girls : what feminist counsellors need to know to begin their work with women Chalene Y. Senn -- Hitting like a girl : an integrated and contextualized approach to confronting the feminst dilemma of women's use of violence Susan Le Blanc -- A word is worth a thousand pictures : counselling with Metis and First Nations women Cathy Richardson -- Aboriginal women and post-traumatic stress disorder : implications of culture on therapy and counselling practices Kathy M. Bent -- Considerations in counselling children and adult survivors of childhood traumas : community, context, and intersubjective resiliencies Marie Lovrod -- No 'body' to blame? : socio-cultural influences on girls and women Gina Wong-Wylie and Shelly Russell-Mayhew -- Is being a lesbian a queer thing to do? Bonita Decaire and Deborah Foster -- Counselling women : ethics for diversity and social justice Jean Pettifor and Judi Malone -- Femnist counsellors repond to abuse in lesbian relationships : confronting heteronormalcy Janice L. Ristock -- Feminist crisis counselling Karen M. Nielsen and Ann Marie Dewhurst -- Telling stories to make sense of job loss Arlene M.C. Young -- Engaging women who are mandated to participate in counselling Ann Marie Dewhurst and Karen M. Nielsen