Elham Hossain

Questioning the Patriarchal Politics of (M)Othering: Re-reading Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood

Knowledge is constructed through questioning. In line with this, Nigerian feminist author Buchi Emechet a questions the traditional methods of stereotyping the role of motherhood, which overtly demonstrates how deliberately political it is to confine a woman merely within her role as a mother, even if she possesses eve...