Female Forbearance, Covid-19 Challenges and Strange Insecurity in South East Nigeria

Abstract

Women have tended to exhibit more physical restraints than men. But whenever it matters most, the erstwhile restrained woman has also proved to be made of flesh, blood and iron determination. This usually happens at the bounds of her patience. Covid-19 represented peculiarly problematic conditions in families. When respites came and the Covid-19 peril retreated, the narratives changed again to the precincts of the typical vulnerability of women in the Nigerian state. The nation returned to the tales of insecurity. In the strange dimension of the national insecurity in Southeast Nigeria, women commuters of all age brackets and health conditions were expected to disembark at security checkpoints on the nation’s highways to raise their arms in surrender, to pass through security checks on daily bases. This paper explores the theme of such humiliating scenarios smacking of society operating on the threshold of female forbearance. The general objective of the work therefore is to study the scenario of society operating at the threshold of female forbearance. The paper is fundamentally a prognosis. The methodology of the contribution is qualitative. The theoretical framework is the frustration-aggression theory.

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