Women and Fairness Navigating an Unfair World

• Other Authors: Lambertsson Björk, Eva (Editor), Eschenbach, Jutta (Editor), Wagner, Johanna M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Waxmann Verlag 2021
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Gender studies: women; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Yellow Wallpaper; Houswifization; Social Reproduction; Rachilde; La Jongleuse; Randa Abdel Fatah; Does My Head Look Big in This?; Ecuador; Comic; Charlotte Wood; The Natural Way of Things; Animal People; Ecofeminist; Helen Wells; Peril over the Airport; Maxine Hong Kingston; No Name Woman; Middle East; Female Lawyers; Family Law; Domestic Violence; Patriarchy; Lesotho
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This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold impediments placed before them as they simply attempt to live full human lives. The collection explores narratives of women - real and fictional - who fight against these barriers, who succumb to them, who remain unaware of them, or choose to ignore them. It explores the ways we read women in cultural production, and how women are read in society. We assert the obstacles constructed into the very fabric of societies against fifty percent of the population are unfair, be they hindrances for women to attain their goals, encumbrances that limit women's speech and societal participation - communal and artistic - or hindrances that prohibit specific behaviors and images of women.