African authors' perceptions of women's achievements : exploring cultural expectations in selected isiZulu literary texts

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University of Pretoria

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In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who are said to disregard cultural expectations by aspring to achieve more than their male conterparts face societal consequences.

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Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.

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African Literary studies or Gender studies, UCTD

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Nkosi, VJ 2020, African authors' perception of women's achievements : Exploring cultural expectations in selected isiZulu literary texts, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76176