Gender & the Black feminist literary tradition
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In the Black feminist literary tradition, gender has become an important transnational issue. In other words, the same problems which confront women in one nation affect women in all nations. Those problems focus generally on the exploitation of women by men, by whites, and by the patriarchal systems which control most countries, their governments, and their socioeconomics. Accordingly, as in Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, addresses problems in a global context, recognizing that women, especially black women, will be able to achieve more justice if they work together, transcending national and cultural borders. Walker's novel focuses on male brutality against women across cultural lines, specifically in the act of the "circumcision" of the clitoris. This is an act which is an expression of the male fear of women's sexuality, of his fear that she is capable of sexual pleasure without his presence, and his general, pathological need to control women in all aspects of life but especially in sexual matters: Man is jealous of woman's pleasure . . . because she does not require him to achieve it. When her outer sex is cut of
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Approximate Word count = 775
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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