Category: Sweat

Zora Neal Hurston’s short story “Sweat” can be read as a work of feminist fiction, although not for the reason one thinks. We begin the story by being introduced to Delia, a washerwoman, as she is sorting out clothes after she has returned home from church. She is singing and wondering where her husband could…

There is a great problem in forensic science to rescue of body fluid for its identification. For the identification of the fluid like blood, semen, saliva and sweat number of methods have been developed. Short time ago Lednev and Virkler profile have published on considerable evaluation on the methods which are well established for body…

Hurston’s Sweat is a short story that represents not only the constraints of a racially divided society but also, and more notably the oppression of women in a patriarchal society. Delia is a microcosm for women of the time, physically inferior, meek at times, but irrepressible no matter how demeaned she feels. Sweat as a…