The book, FRAILTY, THY NAME IS NOT WOMAN, celebrates the quintessential role played by womenfolk in all spheres of life and repudiates the misconception about their personae. It is often gleefully said that women are the weaker sex, whereas, in the pantheon of history, women had dominated areas that were hitherto an exclusive preserve for men. Chief Chris Okoye’s treatment of the book was multi-dimensional. He employed statistical research to vitiate the dogma of frailty attributed to women, and was inspired by a trilogy to showcase his conviction: Biblical stories, Shakespearean stories and stories of contemporary women breaking the glass ceiling. The author sees the mistreatment of women as an aberration, and went on to highlight several cultural practices and political marginalization that have stultified the emancipation of the womenfolk.
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“Frailty, thy name is woman” emerged from the Shakespearean work Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in which King Claudius and his wife, Queen Gertrude, juxtaposed the essence and sincerity of love. King Claudius was fatally entrapped in the sincerity of the love he professed for his Queen who went on to dishonor the trust by marrying her husband’s killer in a short space of time. While the play showed the frailty of Queen Gertrude, Chief Okoye argued with empirical backing that such characterization should not be cast in stone. There have been hordes of women in biblical and contemporary times who have displayed strength, tenacity, forbearance and vision.
FRAILTY, THY NAME IS NOT WOMAN speaks to the conscience of a masculinized world; and the need to give women their pride of place for their well-earned exploits. In this wise, it is apt to celebrate the strength of a woman as propagated by music legend Shaggy, rather than temper on her presumed frailty.