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Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country, especially questions relating to the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes such as racialism and colonialism.
In efforts to move away from grand narratives stemmed from globalization, postcolonial theory was formed as a scholarly critique of colonial literature. [11] By acknowledging the differences among diverse groups of women, postcolonial feminism addresses what some call the oversimplification of Western feminism as solely a resistance against ...
[30] For example, the Code of Hammurabi and the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible provide for penalties for an assault causing miscarriage. [31] The first law prohibiting voluntary abortion appear to be the Middle Assyrian laws, about 500 years after the Code of Hammurabi. These laws provided for impalement and no burial for a woman who "has a ...
As an epistemology (i.e., a study of knowledge, its nature, and verifiability), ethics (moral philosophy), and as a political science (i.e., in its concern with affairs of the citizenry), the field of postcolonialism addresses the matters that constitute the postcolonial identity of a decolonized people, which derives from: [2]
Bas relief at Angkor Wat, c. 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. The Vedic and smrti laws of India reflected a concern with preserving the male seed of the three upper castes; and the religious courts imposed various penances for the woman or excommunication for a priest who provided an abortion. [3]
The experience of developing this 'national literature' in the attempt to create a new type of literature can be seen as the model for all later post-colonial writings. This illustrated that some of a post-colonial nation's strongest linguistic and cultural traits depend on its relationship with the colonising power which developed different ...
The book traces the struggle for abortion rights from the 1960s to the end of apartheid in South Africa. It stresses the intersection of class and race in women's access to safe abortion services, emphasizes the lingering challenges, [1] highlights the lack of a widespread feminist movement during this period and closely examines the impact of a 1972 case involving a medical abortionist named ...
Several abortion clinics (most known was the Alexandria Health Clinic) sued to prevent Jayne Bray and other anti-abortion protesters from voicing their freedom of speech in front of the clinics in Washington D.C. [299] Alexandria Women's Health Clinic reported that the protesters violated 42 U.S.C. 1985(3), which prohibits protests to deprive ...