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    The story follows Lumnay, a woman in a patriarchal tribe, and her experience with the cultural traditions that oppress women. After seven years of marriage without children, her husband Awiyao takes a second wife to have a child, as barrenness is shameful. Despite wanting to defy the elders and stand up for herself, Lumnay's strong belief in their patriarchal society prevents her from doing so. The culture empowers men and treats women as subservient and only valued for child-bearing. In the end, Lumnay is forced to conform to the gender roles expected by her society.

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    The story follows Lumnay, a woman in a patriarchal tribe, and her experience with the cultural traditions that oppress women. After seven years of marriage without children, her husband Awiyao takes a second wife to have a child, as barrenness is shameful. Despite wanting to defy the elders and stand up for herself, Lumnay's strong belief in their patriarchal society prevents her from doing so. The culture empowers men and treats women as subservient and only valued for child-bearing. In the end, Lumnay is forced to conform to the gender roles expected by her society.

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    Feminist Jade Fixed

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    The story follows Lumnay, a woman in a patriarchal tribe, and her experience with the cultural traditions that oppress women. After seven years of marriage without children, her husband Awiyao takes a second wife to have a child, as barrenness is shameful. Despite wanting to defy the elders and stand up for herself, Lumnay's strong belief in their patriarchal society prevents her from doing so. The culture empowers men and treats women as subservient and only valued for child-bearing. In the end, Lumnay is forced to conform to the gender roles expected by her society.

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    The Wedding Dance

    a Feminist Critique
    By:: Jade Catadman

    The Wedding Dance tells about the story of Lumnay and her experience with the tradition
    and culture of her tribe. Awiyao and Lumnay had built a happy life together, and after seven
    harvests of waiting for a child, Awiyao could not bear the fact that Lumnay could not give him a
    child and such is pointed out here: “Lumnay,” he said tenderly. “Lumnay, if I did this it is
    because of my need for a child. You know that life is not worth living without a child. The men
    have mocked me behind my back. You know that.” Awiyao had no other option but to leave
    Lumnay and marry another woman. Despite the fact that Lumnay wanted to defy her culture,
    stand up to the elders and the chief of the village, her strong belief of their patriarchal society
    hindered her from doing so. This signifies the weakness of women in the story and how they are
    only regarded as child-bearers or helpers around the house. Their society had an intense hold on
    her and she knew the difference in power between men and women. Their patriarchal ideology is
    what oppresses women in their tribe and it leads to treating them as if they were not equal to
    men, and as if they were required, as a group, to be subservient to men; a society where a
    Lumnnay is expected to compromise on everything which comes in her way without question. A
    man instead has control over everything right from rules to her in the place she is expected to
    consider as her home while she hardly has a say in any matter. Such portrayal showed how
    culture would always find its way to triumph and how the ill effects of culture could destroy
    women in society. Furthermore, Lumnay’s backing out from defying her tribe only proves that
    culture, dominated by men has taken her as prisoner. Lumnay is obviously presented as a person
    who is mistreated by such a tradition and how she permits in doing such. In the end, she was
    forced to behave in a way that society considers appropriate within its gender roles.

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