Thematic Exploration Of Buchi Emecheta The Joys Of Motherhood And Second Class Citizen

ABSTRACT This long essay is a thematic exploration of Buchi Emechata’s The Joys of Motherhood and Second Class Citizen both of which focus on Feminism as a worldwide social theory, ideology and political movement directed at changing the existing power relations between man and woman. The works identified sociolinguistic factors such as age, gender, religion, education, occupation and culture as factors affecting the use of language in terms of what one says and how it is said concerning feminism.. It also identified the numerous forces militating against the rights of African women specifical…