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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

on women in Yemeni literature, or, Sexual Politics: Yemen Edition

In a word, women in Yemeni literature are sexualized in a way that distracts from the other possible attributes of female characters.

Sounds familiar.
Posted by Susan at 11:46 PM

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