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Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi
This article examines the translation of gendered metaphor in Yoruba – English discourse, focusing on how metaphorical representations of gender are retained, transformed, attenuated, intensified, or reframed in English. The study … used to identify source- target mappings through which women, sexuality, bodily experience, and gender relations are conceptualised, while Feminist Translation Theory provides a basis for examining the ideological implications
Chinasa Abonyi
Gender coloniality in African literature is characterized by feminist identity, which is twisted into uncertainties and continued abuse. Just as women are unduly subjected to masculinist and socio-economic … dominance, colonial intrusion situates them more at the margin than indigenous culture does. Thus, gender coloniality is a continued domination of women in postcolonial Africa. From postcolonial feminist theory, this
Okoro, Harmony Ezinne and Omoregie, Blessing Onaiwu Eyonju
colour has always been rendered insignificant by their host communities, perpetuating the inequalities of gender, race, class, social mobility, citizenship status and nationality. The media, anti-sexual violence activism … victim-blaming tendencies. Intersectionality is applied as the complementary framework to clarify how immigration, gender, class and race interact in the novel’s depiction of gender-based violence. Through qualitative
Ugomma Divine Iroakaze and Chiamaka Amalachukwu Ugoka
self-expression. In literary representations of women’s lives, these spatial restrictions often sustain gendered power relations and limit female autonomy. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space … Odafen’s Tomorrow I Become a Woman. The study argues that the text foregrounds gendered spaces as mechanisms for normalising patriarchal authority and constraining women’s movement. Through a textual
Nwakaire Esther Nkechi, Ozor Gloria Nwando and David-Ojukwu Ifeyinwa
This study explores how genderlect, or gender-specific language patterns, shapes the portrayal of victims and perpetrators in Nigerian online rape reports from 2019 to 2025. It also examines what … Nairaland repost for citizen-media comparison. It investigates how naming, framing, and metaphors construct gendered identities and power dynamics before and after the watershed event. Findings indicate tentative trends: male
Chioma Patricia Onuorah
This paper critically examines the negotiation of tradition, gender, migration, and female identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen (1974), with particular attention to how transnational movement reshapes women … migration does not necessarily liberate women from patriarchal structures; rather, it relocates and reshapes gendered inequalities within new social, cultural, racial, and economic contexts. The analysis is organised around three
Christian Onah and Emmanuel Jibb Adams
examine how the linguistic choices of both authors construct and communicate ideologies of gender and power. Rather than accepting the conventional assumption that both novels simply reproduce a feminist ideology … study sets out to identify the authors’ more complex visions of the female gender, to demonstrate how specific linguistic choices function as indices of intended meaning, and to illustrate
Eze, Chidiebere Chukwuemeka, Chinasa Abonyi and Nicholas, Miracle Oluebubechi
effective leadership is associated with competence, vision, and commitment to societal welfare rather than gender. It concludes that the play challenges gender-based restrictions on women’s leadership and highlights
Obiorah Ekwueme and John Uche Ngonadi
likely") to εἰκῇ (eikē, "at random"). Findings reveal how the drama distributes evidence along gendered lines: Jocasta is given no opportunity to demand consent, that reinforces the assumption upon which
Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke
desires, choices, and identities. While existing readings of Browning’s dramatic monologues have explored gender, jealousy, violence, sexuality, marriage, and psychological conflict, the relationship between the denial of female autonomy