The Socialization of gender inequality in FLORA NWAPA'S IDU :
/ by Benoit Nsengiyumva ; Marie- Thérèse Toyi, supervisor
. - Bujumbura : University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Departement of English Language and Literature , 2017
. - IV- 81 f. ; 30 cm
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Award of the degree "Licence en Langue et Littératures Anglaises"
RESUME,
This work shows how the institution of marriage oppresses women and how fixed images of gender roler affect people. It also aims at discovering how those aspects of marriage and gender roles and cliché are sosialized and become as laws in Idu. This work is built on the hypothesis that Flora Nwapa presents women as pressured by the society to behave according to social nrms and customs of the society and both men and women are socielized to accept to accept what the society wants of them even if it victimizes them. In view of this, the present work is founded on the feminist approach, which aims at understanding the nature of gender inequality. It examines women and men's social roles; experience, chores in order to point out how women are victimized. After a close examination, we found that the institution of family participates in the subordination of women. We also found out that gender roler also participate in the socialization of gender inequality in the society dépicted in the novel under study. Coming to the conclusion that the institution of family and gender roler are some of the determining factors in the socialization of gender inequality, the work recommender a revaluation of customs and beliefs pertaining to women's oppression and this will be achieved by educating people that women and men have equal rights and deserve equal treatment.