Sexual Exploitation and Gender Inequality: Lessons from Okoh’s The Mannequins (1997)

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Rosemary Asen

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This article focuses on sexual exploitation of women in Okoh’s The Manequins. The major character in the play uses women as toys for sexual pleasure resulting in adverse consequences for the victims. The play projects the fact that the male gender often takes advantage of their privileged position in the society and greater physical strength to exploit women sexually. This is a contribution to gender inequality in the society. However, this social ill can be curbed through measures such as continuous empowerment of women through education and poverty alleviation programmes as well as intervening measures for men’s enlighten against sexual exploitation of women.

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Asen, R. (2020). Sexual Exploitation and Gender Inequality: Lessons from Okoh’s The Mannequins (1997). Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 2(3), 27-36. https://doi.org/10.58256/hjlcs.v2i3.150
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Asen, R. (2020). Sexual Exploitation and Gender Inequality: Lessons from Okoh’s The Mannequins (1997). Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 2(3), 27-36. https://doi.org/10.58256/hjlcs.v2i3.150

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