This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions
concerning how women handle the manifold impediments placed before them as they simply attempt
to live full human lives. The collection explores narratives of women - real and fictional -
who fight against these barriers who succumb to them who remain unaware of them or choose to
ignore them. It explores the ways we read women in cultural Production and how women are read
in society. We assert the obstacles constructed into the very fabric of societies against fifty
percent of the population are unfair be they hindrances for women to attain their goals
encumbrances that limit women's speech and societal participation - communal and artistic - or
hindrances that prohibit specific behaviors and images of women.
