Title: Politics of the female body
Description: Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? Arguing that it is possible, the author uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries.
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature, Commonwealth literature (English), Feminism and literature, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Postcolonialism in literature, Women, Women and literature, Women authors, Women in literature, Human body in literature, Corps humain dans la littérature, Écrits de femme anglais du Commonwealth, Femmes, Femmes et littérature, Commonwealth, Frauenliteratur, Postcolonialisme dans la littérature, Postkolonialismus, Vie intellectuelle, Femmes dans la littérature, Histoire et critique, Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise), Frau, Postkoloniale Literatur, Féminisme et littérature, Körper, Commonwealth literature (english), history and criticism, Women, developing countries
Places: Commonwealth countries, Developing countries