If Medea were tried on Court TV today, would we forgive her? Would the psychiatrists and feminists called to the stand in her defense try to justify her crime — the murder of her two young sons — by attributing it to postpartum depression or to the "oppression" of her callous and unavailable husband?
By Hilton Als If Medea were tried on Court TV today, would we forgive her? Would the psychiatrists and feminists called to the stand in her defense try to justify her crime — the murder of her two young sons — by attributing it to postpartum depression or to the "oppression" of her callous and unavailable husband?
The two teens ended up killing her parents to escape the oppression of their religion".
The two teens ended up killing her parents to escape the oppression of their religion". .
Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who writes of the oppression of dictatorship in her native country and the unmoored existence of the political exile, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
The exclusion of a woman from being Karta "not only contributes to her discrimination on the ground of gender but also has led to oppression and negation of her fundamental right of equality guaranteed by the Constitution having regard to the need to render social justice to women," the lawyers advocating the new decision said.
The character doesn't explicitly observe that her biological womanhood is an integral part of her oppression and her experience of the world, as a feminist essayist might; instead, she observes that she's feeling scared, or mad, or happy.
Some of those close to her talk of how she was "scarred" during her lonely years of oppression and how her sacrifices were largely ignored.
Angelou presented herself as a role model for African-American women by reconstructing the Black woman's image throughout her autobiographies, and has used her many roles, incarnations, and identities to connect the layers of oppression with her personal history.
The suppression and oppression of Indian women were the subjects of her first novel, Cry, the Peacock (1963), and a later novel, Where Shall We Go This Summer?
Torres, who grew up in a matriarchal household, as the daughter of the Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and the actor Fernando Torres, understands herself to be an exception in terms of her experience of male oppression within her profession.
