To Speak or Be Silent

This is an exploration of the history of the woman’s dilemma in history and literature. Lena Ross has collected articles on disobedient women from Eve and Bedouin women to Jane Eyre, Dona Luz, and Virginia Woolf—how they have challenged male dominance and the structures of patriarchal oppression.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Lena B. Ross.CREATING A WORLDEve: Reflections on the Psychology of the First Disobedient Women –Juddith HubbackBefore the Fall(s): Native American Women and the Concept of Disobedience -  Patricia Clark SmithAnalyzing Resistance: Bedouin Women's Discourses - Lila Abu-LughodCREATING A SELFStrategies of Defiance: The Quest of the Wife of Bath - Judith GrossmanStepping Off the Path: Disobedience and Story-Making in "Little Red-Cap” – Jeanie Watson"Speak I Must": Jane Eyre and the Discourse of Disobedience – Lena B. RossTo Speak or Be Spoken: Some Women in African Literature - Marjolijn de JagerApple, Nabila, and Ramza: Arab Women's Narratives of Resistance - Miriam CookeStaying in the Place of Danger: The Disobedient, Poetic "I" of Dahlia Ravikovitch - Nili Rachel Scharf GoldTRANSFORMING A WORLDWomen Who Disobey: Examples from India - Manisha RoyThe Whirlwind and the Spiral: State-Sponsored Terror and Psychic Resistance in Marta Traba's Mothers and Shadows – Teresa AndersonAt War with Home in South Africa: Writing by Ellen Kuzwayo and Lauretta Ngcobo - Jane Foress BennettRAGE AND DISOBEDIENCE: LIKE A RAISIN IN THE SUNMedea's Fiery Chariot - Carol SavitzSome Archetypal Foundations of Self-Spite in the Welsh Mabinogion - Sylvia Brinton PereraSuchieh: The Untamed Shrew of Hsing-shih Yin-yuan - Fan Pen ChenVirginia Woolf: The Tragedy of Unconscious Disobedience - Jane White-LewisWOMEN OF POWER: WHOSE HERO IS SHE, ANYWAY?Princess of Resolution: The Emergence of Al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, A Medieval Arab Warrior Woman - Wen-chin OuyangFrom Coatlicue to Doiia Luz: Mitotes in Chicana Literature - Tey Diana RebolledoLye Throwers and Lovely Renegades: The Road from Bitch to Hero for Black Women in Fiction and Poetry - Jewelle GomezForbidden Words-Enchanting Song: The Treatment of Delilah in Literature and Music - Elaine Hoffman Baruch