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[1].       Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities University of California Press." Berkeley, Los Angeles (2005), 82.

[1].       ibid, 71-72

[1].       ibid, 83

[1].       Divya Hariharan, “A Transformation in the Feministic Poetry of the Past and the Present: A Comparative Study of the Poems of Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Warsan Shire- The Rights of Women and For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” Research Journal Of English (RJOE) 5, no. 3 (2020): 327–33, 327.

[1].       Bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston: South End Press, 1984).

[1].       Divya Hariharan, “A Transformation in the Feministic Poetry of the Past and the Present,” 328.

[1].       Sánchez, Mayte Cantero. “‘Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth’  A feminist approach to Warsan Shire’s poetry.” Blue Gum, no. 3, (2016): 56–63, 58.

[1].       Ibid., 58.

[1].       Divya Hariharan, “A Transformation in the Feministic Poetry of the Past and the Present,” 327.

[1].       Cotten, Savannah. “21 Famous Authors and Their Pen Names.” enotes.com, February 2, 2018. https://blog.enotes.com/2018/02/02/21-famous-authors-and-their-pen-names/.

[1].         Divya Hariharan, “A Transformation in the Feministic Poetry of the Past and the Present,” 328.

[1].         Ibid., 328.

[1].         Ibid., 329.

[1].         Jakhrani, Muhammad Haroon, and Muhammad Hassan Shaikh. “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Warsan Shire’s Poem ‘The House.’” ISAR Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 3 (September 8, 2023): 5–10, 5

[1].         Sánchez, Mayte Cantero. “‘Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth’”, 57.

[1].         Micheal, Janito. “Malevolent Dogma and Frigidity: Collective Trauma in Warsan Shire’s ‘Girls.’” Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education 13, no. 2 (2017): 583–87, 585.

[1].         Ibid., 585.

[1].         Jakhrani, Muhammad Haroon, and Muhammad Hassan Shaikh. “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Warsan Shire’s Poem ‘The House.’”, 8

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems. Penguin, 2022.

[1].         Ibid., 2022.

[1].         Bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 45

[1].         Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241–1299, 2141.

[1].         Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2002), 221.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 77-88.

[1].         Althusser, Louis. On the reproduction of capitalism: Ideology and ideological state apparatuses. Verso, (2014), 79. 

[1].         Ibid., 79.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 68.

[1].         ibid., 71

[1].         ibid., 71.

[1].         ibid., 71.

[1].         Tyson, Lois. "Critical theory today." (2006), 57.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 72.

[1].         ibid., 72.

[1].         Shakespeare, William. Hamlet The Prince of Denmark. London: BLACKIE - AND- SON - LIMITED, 1902, 24.

[1].         Althusser, Louis. On the reproduction of capitalism, 79.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 68.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 74

[1].         ibid, 74

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         Brown, Christopher. White bodies, Black gaze: Constructions of White masculinity in White-male elite discourses on leadership and diversity. (2010), 45.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 72.

[1].         Keynan, Hassan A. "Male roles and the making of the Somali tragedy. Reflections on gender, masculinity and violence in Somali society." In Proceedings of EASS/SSIA International Congress of Somali Studies. Variations on the theme of Somaliness. Centre for Continuing Education, Åbo Akademi University, 2001, 244.

[1].         Ibid., 245.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 75-76.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         ibid, 2022

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 77.

[1].         ibid, 77

[1].         Lynne M. Woehrle and Donna Engelmann, “Gender Studies”, (2008), 861.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         Lynne M. Woehrle and Donna Engelmann, “Gender Studies”, (2008), 862.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 83.

[1].         ibid., 83.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 83.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         Connell, Robert W. "Masculinities, (2005), 82.

[1].         ibid., 83.

[1].         ibid., 77.

[1].         ibid., 82.

[1].         Foucault, Michel and Colin Gordon. “Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977.” (1980), 59.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         Ibid., 2022.

[1].         Irigaray, Luce. This sex which is not one. Cornell University Press, 1985, 23.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.

[1].         Shire, Warsan. Bless the Daughter, 2022.

[1].         ibid., 2022.