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The «gift of the tongue» has been generally acknowledged as one of women's chief aptitudes. In world mythology and history, women performed several roles requiring eloquence and fluency

Since we are dealing with texts written by women, the question that comes to mind is whether or not there is a unique or particular way in which women inscriberepresentation. My examination of texts written by women as well as men from the 1950's to the present reveal that no clearcut or categorical differences occur between texts written by men and those written by women. There seems to be nodifference in the language they use or the techniques employed in their writing. Is it a question of content then which makes texts written by women different?

Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and excitement coalesced. Moving between the family home and domestic independence, between household and public labor, and between celibacy and a range of sexual relations, the single woman remains a literary and cultural focus, as she has been from the 19th to the 21st centuries. This collection offers readers the opportunity to uncover the social, political, economic, and cultural connections between the "singly blessed" women and "bachelor girls" of the 19th and early 20th century and "all the single ladies" of the 21st century. Essays read singleness across genre and field, offering new approaches to studying modern and contemporary single women in literature, film, and history. Authors engage scholarship from wide ranging fields of social history, women's studies, queer theory, and Black feminism. The collection reads familiar texts against the grain, rethinking archival resources, revisiting familiar figures, and exploring new sources: cookbooks, ephemera, personal documents, recovered film histories, and forms of domestic space and labor.This is a book for scholars of gender and sexuality, social history, feminist film and media scholars, and literary historians, and reflects the urgent contemporary interest in single women as a political, economic, and cultural force

The present study attempts to understand young Pakistani women's identities in relation to their aspirations for higher degrees in English literature. The research reported here is part of a larger ongoing study aimed at exploring linkages between young women's literacy practices in various languages and their concepts of self and identity. The feminist techniques of unstructured in-depth interviews backed up with a self-participatory approach and participant observation were used to capture the richness and fluidity of women's public and private identities. The analysis and findings suggest that despite resistance shown by women to Western culture and ideologies, they do take on new subjectivities and positionalities as they tend to imbibe the norms and values associated with English. The wider exposure to English at an institution of higher education opens up windows to the world, to Western ideologies and world-view, coupled with access to the Internet, cable channels, literary texts, books and magazines. Often in expressing personal aspirations that are contrary to their more traditional roles there is also a certain resistance to this cultural invasion; the women seem to project distinct hybrid identities that are dichotomous and conflictual.