Procreation-Triggered Psychiatric Episodes, Maternal Mortality and Male Dominance in National Development: A Study of Selected Nigerian Gynotexts

Iwabi Abraham Modahunsi; Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale

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Procreation-Triggered Psychiatric Episodes, Maternal Mortality and Male Dominance in National Development: A Study of Selected Nigerian Gynotexts

Iwabi Abraham Modahunsi, Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale

Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 6)

Received: 13 November 2021 Accepted: 30 November 2021 Published: 24 December 2021

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The hazards related to parturition hardly feature in androtexts (male-authored texts). This is because men do not personally experience the pang of labor during childbirth. That some women procreate without hurdles does not make many people to realize that there are other women who have complications during pregnancy, labor and after parturition. Procreation exerts untold pressure on women’s mental wellbeing, and it results into psychiatric episodes, protracted infirmity and maternal mortality, sometimes. This necessitates the reflection of women’s experiences in gynotexts (female-authored texts). The foci of this study are the exposition of the degeneration of childbirth into psychiatric conditions, maternal mortality and how gynotexts dwelling on literature and medicine could be used to project didactic lessons that make women to be less vulnerable to unwholesome health challenges during procreation. Denial of women’s participation in crucial national affairs is also given attention in this study. It is discovered in the study that Yejide’s delayed pregnancy results into a psychiatric condition called pseudocyesis in Adebayo Ayobami’s Stay with me. Rayesha is so much traumatized that she goes to the night market everyday in search of the baby she loses to miscarriage, in the short story maskheaded as “Night Market”, in Molara Wood’s Indigo. Parturition and mental dissonance are the thematic preoccupations of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Zikora. Women’s reproductive challenges make men dominate them in all spheres of national development. It is recommended that more gynotexts be prescribed to students studying literature to make them more conscious of the reproductive challenges women face.

Published in	International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijcems.20210706.15
Page(s)	194-199
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Psychiatric Episodes, Maternal Mortality, Gynotexts, National Development

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Iwabi Abraham Modahunsi, Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale. Procreation-Triggered Psychiatric Episodes, Maternal Mortality and Male Dominance in National Development: A Study of Selected Nigerian Gynotexts. Int J Clin Exp Med Sci. 2021;7(6):194-199. doi: 10.11648/j.ijcems.20210706.15

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Iwabi Abraham Modahunsi

Department of English, Federal College of Education, Kontagora, Nigeria
Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale

Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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