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matrilineal relating to descent or kinship through the female line How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Surviving starvation, humiliation, rape, disease and the privations of the jungle and the government-run care centres, the Bougainville women exhibited a brand of courage and endurance that redefines matrilineality in the modern world. 20) For over a quarter of a century, certain themes in Asian American literary criticism have been prevalent in feminist scholarship, such as protest against racism, subversion of Orientalism, resistance to patriarchy, claiming of matrilineality, coming into voice, and celebration of sexuality, all of which have been inextricable from the notion of oppression and the resultant need for oppositional agency. Through these four pairs of texts, Wu posits an image of female rule that undergoes a three-stage transformation proceeding from the negation of rule by women to rule by a female impersonating a male; from rule by an individual female to collective female rule; and from matrilineality to anarchism by the female principle. |
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