To understand and explore the theme of women's subordination, it is appropriate to look at the power dynamics that govern the relationship between men and women. Kate Millet calls it “sexual politics”, her definition of politics is that of “power-structured relationships, arrangements whereby one group of people is controlled by another” (2000:23). The female body becomes the site where sexual politics is played out because it is constantly under pressure to conform and submit to prescribed social and cultural norms. . The female body is considered a procreation device and a source of sexual pleasure. It would be significant here to cite Simone de Beauvoir's argument regarding the body, who writes that man "thinks of his own body as a direct and normal connection with the world, which he believes he understands objectively, while he considers the woman's body as an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that is peculiar to it" (1997: 15). This suggests that the man takes immense pride in his body while viewing a woman's body as a burden he has to live with. Since man is the measure of all things, the woman's body is perceived as a lack that can hope for perfection and completion only in her relationship with man. Ketu Katrak reiterates this alienation from one's body by saying that women “experience self-exile, a sense of not belonging to themselves” (2006: 158). Women's subordination is linked to control over their sexuality, reproductive rights, etc. Female resistance to the lack of self-determination over their bodies constitutes an important aspect of the African feminist struggle. This article examines Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde (1994) as an account of female resistance to deprivation......middle of paper......knowledge;selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977.Pantheon Books:New York , 1980.Hooks,Bell. It's not the women of AI: Black women and feminism. Pluto Press: London, 1982 Katrak, H. Ketu. Female Body Politics: Third World Postcolonial Women Writers. London: Rutgers University Press.2006 Millet, Kate. Sexual politics. America: Illinois, 2000 Olaniyen, Tejumola, Ato Quayson. African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory. Feminism, postcolonialism and contradictory orders of modernity. UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Umeh, Mary (ed.). Emerging perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Brenda Berrian. "The Voice of His Ancestors: The Ibeji Transcendence of Duality in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde." New Jersey: African World Press.1996Weitz, Rose. The politics of women's bodies. Sandra Lee “Bartky Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power” .OUP:NY,1998