Women's representation in selected Hadhrami proverbs

الملخص EN

The paper aims at shedding light on the representation of women in selected Hadhrami proverbs***.

The assumption is that women's image is distorted because of men's chauvinism in the patriarchal Hadhrami society.

Samples of these proverbs have been analyzed to show how women are represented.

Besides, there have been an investigation among the youth to see what are the reasons that stand behind that dark image and the social negative attitude towards women.

The study comes to the conclusion that range of negativity and distortion in the proverbs are not the same.

The study is divided into four chapters; the first is a definition of terms and concepts and the related studies; the second is about the methods and approaches followed in the analysis; the third is the analysis of the data; and the forth is a conclusion that sums up the findings.