WOMEN AS PREDATORS OF THEIR KIND IN CLUTCHES OF WIDOWHOOD BY FELICIA ONYEWADUME

Abstract

It is a dominant belief and a fact that women occupy very important and sensitive position in society to such an extent that their dispositions affect both their families and the entire society. But their emancipation, in as much as it was profoundly believed to be achieved by re-ordering of the patriachal control over females, yet a critical surveillance of the affairs of women exposes that the so called obnoxious traditions were spear-headed, most surprisingly, not by men but females even against their kind. That is to say that amidst human problems, majority of the female problems and hindrances in life emanate from their kind. An instance is in the women whose husbands died; which up till this 21^st century still persists. Widowhood in Nigerian situation is explored by the researcher using Felicia Onyewadume’s Clutches Of Widowhood in Echoes of Hard times to buttress the fact that women are really the predators of their kind. This will be done from the Feminist point of view.