Posts Tagged as ‘feminism’

February 18, 2009

Nervous Conditions Review#2

Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions is the story of a young black girl, Tambu, who grows up in poverty in the white dominated Rhodesia. Despite her poverty and the domination of her male relatives, through hard work such as growing her own maize, selling it, and studying hard she is able to get an education and go [...]

January 26, 2009

Nervous Conditions Online Discussion

Jennifer Tooley
The entire work Nervous Conditions is all about the development of the mind; in this case the development of a young girl not only becoming an adult but finding her own path of becoming a person despite the constraints of being a woman. We see that Tambu fought long and hard to have the [...]