Presenting Her Self : Deconstructing the Politics of Presentation

Abstract

Writing is the only avenue of expression for many women in different cultures and
societies. It is also a means to stay sane in a society that inflicts all possible tortures on
its women at the same time prohibiting them to speak for themselves. In an increasingly
insecure world, a woman speaks of conflict, generated, engendered and perpetuated
by men. (c.f. Black Eve in Prison, x). While nature seems to award brilliance equally to
men and women, society does not nurture it equally in the two sexes, and thus leaves
the women more discouraged. Nor, in females, does the world approve self expression,
which artists are born to make.