Language and the female body.

• Main Author: Nur Hidayah Abu Mansor.
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49680
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The paper addresses the effects of the language used by men on women and the ways in which language as used by men oppresses and objectifies women by focusing on the female body. It will also look at the colonial implications of language and how it is used to create and contain the native female bod...