The chapters in this collection reveal the depths and nuances in the cultural attitudes toward and popular views of the second wife, from ancient times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of second wifehood in a way that offers insights into the second wife experience.
The chapters in this collection reveal the depths and nuances in the cultural attitudes toward and popular views of the second wife, from ancient times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of second wifehood in a way that offers insights into the second wife experience.
Jo Parnell is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science (HCISS), College of Human and Social Futures, at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Foreword Mark Hoffman Acknowledgements Introduction Jo Parnell Chapter 1. Toxic Patriarchy: Raise the Red Lantern and Chinese Concubinage Andrew Howe Chapter 2. The Second Wife According to Assia Djebar, Fawzia Zouari and Their Novels A Sister to Scheherazade, and The Second Wife Christa Jones Chapter 3. Polygamy and Socio-political Configurations in the Egyptian Cultural Imaginations Azza Harras Chapter 4 Secondary Spouse: Ekwefi as Second Wife in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Harry Olufunwa Chapter 5. Unmasking the Realities of Polygamy: the Figure of the Second Wife in Changes: A Love Story (1993), Ada: A Victim of Fate and Cultural Circumstances (2014), and Mariah (2002). Shalini Nadaswaran Chapter 6. Poppaea Sabina, second wife to the Roman Emperor Nero Jane Bellemore Chapter 7. "I am Mrs de Winter now": Gaslighting, a deadly paradox, and Hitchcock's second wife. Kathryn Keeble About the Contributors
Foreword Mark Hoffman Acknowledgements Introduction Jo Parnell Chapter 1. Toxic Patriarchy: Raise the Red Lantern and Chinese Concubinage Andrew Howe Chapter 2. The Second Wife According to Assia Djebar, Fawzia Zouari and Their Novels A Sister to Scheherazade, and The Second Wife Christa Jones Chapter 3. Polygamy and Socio-political Configurations in the Egyptian Cultural Imaginations Azza Harras Chapter 4 Secondary Spouse: Ekwefi as Second Wife in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Harry Olufunwa Chapter 5. Unmasking the Realities of Polygamy: the Figure of the Second Wife in Changes: A Love Story (1993), Ada: A Victim of Fate and Cultural Circumstances (2014), and Mariah (2002). Shalini Nadaswaran Chapter 6. Poppaea Sabina, second wife to the Roman Emperor Nero Jane Bellemore Chapter 7. "I am Mrs de Winter now": Gaslighting, a deadly paradox, and Hitchcock's second wife. Kathryn Keeble About the Contributors
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