Aborted Rage in Beth Henley's Women

Abstract

Beth Henley's tragicomedies study the effects of the feminist movement upon a few, mostly proletarian women in rural Mississippi, who are more likely to read Glamour than Cixous and Clement's The Newly Born Woman. We are invited to sympathize with isolated heroines whose fantasies demonstrate the difficulty of conceiving female subjectivity while entrenched in patriarchal epistemes, whose resilience is expressed in their canny, survivalist compromises with the codes of passive southern womanhood. Their compromises may be precisely located in the recurring imagery of homicide and suicide that pervades Henley's scripts.

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus in a tertiary institution in North Western Nigeria

“…Anti-HBs also develop in a person who has been successfully vaccinated against hepatitis B. Since none of the student had developed anti-HBs, it means they have not yet recovered from natural infection (Shepard et al, 2006). Furthermore, 7.3% (4/55) of the HBsAg reactive students had HBeAg.…”