scholarly journals The Prisoner of Gender:  Panopticon, Persuasion, and Surveillance of Women in Kavita Kané’s Menaka’s Choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Meenakshi ◽  
Nagendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Central Position ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Disciplinary System

In the mythology-inspired novel Menaka’s Choice (2016), Kavita Kané discovers that the female body is continuously perceived both as an object of sexual desire and as an individual being by disrupting the conventional understanding of Apsara Menaka. Using Foucault’s concept of docile bodies and organic individuality the paper studies how power, in the form of ‘system’, imposes docility on women’s bodies. The paper weaves the potential for feminist thought as the novel rediscovers the recondite experiences that have been shrouded for centuries by giving central position to silent agents of Hindu mythology. Eventually, it attempts to analyse the act of seduction from the context of gender and how the individual tries to resist that disciplinary system.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI SEKSUALITAS PEREMPUAN DALAM KEINDAHAN DAN KESEDIHAN KARYA YASUNARI KAWABATA

sarasvati ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Agung Pranoto ◽  
Rini Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
The Subject

This research examines the construction of female sexuality in the novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabata. This research is qualitative research that does study of novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabrata. The method used is the deskiptif method that is collecting data, clarification of data, manipulate data, and interpret the data in accordance with the theory that was used at the time the research was conducted. In the novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabata, reflecting the construction of female sexuality. The construction of female sexuality that, first, the novel represents the female body through the figures. The representation of the female body in the text of the novel disegmentasikan by displaying the marker women sexy. Second, the representation of female sexual desire in the novel beauty and Sadness is presented through the desire character Otoko and Keiko to transmit sexual desires with her partner. Third, representations of female sexuality in the relation of beauty and sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata was still predominantly on the male as the subject.

Foucauldian Docile Body in Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2052
Author(s):  
Robab Beheshti ◽  
Mahdi Shafieyan
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Cellular Distribution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Positive View ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Disciplinary System

This article presents a Foucauldian reading of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island. Depicting modern medical facilities, the book demonstrates disciplinary system and power manipulation on psychotic patients who are confined to cellular spaces, and are subjugated under medical gaze. Despite the patients’ resistance to the power, they are ultimately expected to be dominated and normalized. The ideas presented in the novel are in line with Foucault’s notion of “docile body”, discussed in his Discipline and Punish, which are considered as the key concepts of the research and are explored within the designated novels. Power as a penetrating force transforms the individual into a docile being which refers to a submissive and dynamic body; surveillance acts as physics of power and holds a constant gaze on the individual in a way that he is subjugated by the invisible observing power; confinement along with cellular distribution turns the individual to an analytical body. This research aims to explore the docilizing elements and achieved level of normalization within the novel of the study; it tries to investigate the extent to which the gaze held on the patients performs a positive result as discussed by Foucault. The study inspects the response of the body to disciplinary techniques and reveals that in Lehane’s novel, the effect of power manipulation is displayed as possibly counter-productive and repressive in docilizing the body which is contradictory to Foucault’s positive view of power.

The Discourse of Beauty Faced by Sales Promotion Girl in The Curse of Beauty Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Fiqih Aisyatul Farokhah ◽  
Adi Putra Surya Wardhana
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Economic Process ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

This study aims to analyze the discourse of women's beauty and marginalization of women's beauty in the novel The Curse of Beauty by Indah Hanaco. This study uses a qualitative data analysis research method. This study uses critical discourse analysis by Sarah Mills to examine the beauty discourse that SPG faces in the story of the novel. The results show SPG became a tool to attract buyers' interests. the owners of capital have made the female body an important tool in every social and economic process, to provide the erotic appeal of products through the imaging of mass media. It means, women's bodies have been disciplined through the concept of beauty by the mass media. Thus, the female body represented in the SPG story experiences marginalization of women's beauty. Thus, the female body represented in the SPG story experiences marginalization of women's beauty.

scholarly journals La représentation du corps féminin : ostracisme, stéréotypes et concupiscence dans David’s Story de Zoë Wicomb

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Férial Khella
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Black Female ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Women Warriors ◽  
Zoe Wicomb ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
A Site

This article explores Zoë Wicomb’s complex representation of the Black female body in her first novel David’s Story, which deals mainly with the condition of the female guerrilla fighter during and after the struggle for liberation. These women warriors have served the nation and have contribu-ted to its liberation through their bodies, but have also been silenced and ignored in the post-apartheid era. In addition, they have been subjected to multiple forms of physical and sexual violence by their own comrades within the Anti-apartheid Movement. The Black female body, as it appears in the novel, is a site of power, oppression, violence, and even complicity. The pre-sent work tasks itself, firstly, with analyzing not only how the author deconstructs the stereotypical images of the strong female guerrilla but also those concerning Coloured women’s bodies which have been marked by racial and sexual differences, focusing here especially on the question of concupiscence. Then, I will concentrate on the way the female body is represented and inscribed in language. Finally, I will analyze Zoë Wicomb’s narrative techniques by considering the impossibility of representing the body in the absence of discourse.

The Discourse of Beauty Faced by Sales Promotion Girl in The Curse of Beauty Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Fiqih Aisyatul Farokhah ◽  
Adi Putra Surya Wardhana
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Economic Process ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

This study aims to analyze the discourse of women's beauty and marginalization of women's beauty in the novel The Curse of Beauty by Indah Hanaco. This study uses a qualitative data analysis research method. This study uses critical discourse analysis by Sarah Mills to examine the beauty discourse that SPG faces in the story of the novel. The results show SPG became a tool to attract buyers' interests. the owners of capital have made the female body an important tool in every social and economic process, to provide the erotic appeal of products through the imaging of mass media. It means, women's bodies have been disciplined through the concept of beauty by the mass media. Thus, the female body represented in the SPG story experiences marginalization of women's beauty. Thus, the female body represented in the SPG story experiences marginalization of women's beauty.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis wacana kecantikan perempuan dan marginalisasi terhadap kecantikan perempuan dalam novel The Curse of Beauty karya Indah Hanaco. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian analisis data kualitatif. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis wacana kritis dari Sarah Mills untuk mengkaji wacana kecantikan yang dihadapi SPG pada kisah dalam novel tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa SPG menjadi alat untuk memikat minat pembeli. Para pemilik modal telah membuat tubuh perempuan menjadi alat penting dalam setiap proses sosial dan ekonomi untuk memberikan daya tarik erotis produk melalui pencitraan media massa. Artinya, tubuh perempuan telah didisiplinkan melalui konsepsi kecantikan oleh media massa. Dengan demikian, tubuh perempuan yang direpresentasikan dalam kisah SPG tersebut mengalami marginalisasi kecantikan perempuan.

CHUNILAL MADIYA’S LILUDI DHARATI: A NARRATIVE CENTRED ON SAURASHTRA REGION

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagvanhai H. Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Individual

As the inheritor of Jhaverchand Meghani, Madiya has narrated the old districts of Saurashtra (Sorath, mid-part of Saurashtra and Halar Region). Liludi Dharti is considered his ambitious Janpadi (of Rural Life) novel. It is his experiment based novel in which he has combined together the individual and group life to narrate the story of Sorathi life. Gundasar, a village located in the lap of the Girnar mountain of Junagadh in Saurashtra region is at the centre of the novel. The novelist aims at depicting realistic portrayal of rural culture. The event occurred in mistake develops the pitiful situation. The poverty of rural culture, their sexual desire, enmity, envy and conspiracy against each other show its genuine expression in context to the entire set-up. The writer employs the local dialects of Saurashtra region in its indigenous form. As he himself is the soul of that land, hence could efficiently utilize the local colours.

Margaret Mahy: An Adlerian Reading

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199
Author(s):  
KATHRYN WALLS
Keyword(s):  
Young Female ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Psychology ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Alfred Adler ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Magical Power ◽  
Margaret Mahy ◽  
The Individual

According to the ‘Individual Psychology’ of Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Freud's contemporary and rival, everyone seeks superiority. But only those who can adapt their aspirations to meet the needs of others find fulfilment. Children who are rejected or pampered are so desperate for superiority that they fail to develop social feeling, and endanger themselves and society. This article argues that Mahy's realistic novels invite Adlerian interpretation. It examines the character of Hero, the elective mute who is the narrator-protagonist of The Other Side of Silence (1995) , in terms of her experience of rejection. The novel as a whole, it is suggested, stresses the destructiveness of the neurotically driven quest for superiority. Turning to Mahy's supernatural romances, the article considers novels that might seem to resist the Adlerian template. Focusing, in particular, on the young female protagonists of The Haunting (1982) and The Changeover (1984), it points to the ways in which their magical power is utilised for the sake of others. It concludes with the suggestion that the triumph of Mahy's protagonists lies not so much in their generally celebrated ‘empowerment’, as in their transcendence of the goal of superiority for its own sake.

Foundations and Introduction of Islamic Economics: Role and Trends

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Dr. Bilal Ahmad Khan
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Moral Training ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
The Status ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
The Individual

Islamic economics based on specific concept of universe and the creation of man is contradictory to the concept adopted and accepted by modern science. Islamic economics postulates although ability and expertise is required for progress and growth but distribution of resources completely dependent on it would be cruel, inhuman and bereft of kindness, and lead to oppression. Islamic economics does not favor making human ability and expertise the fulcrum of resource distribution. It should be kind, considerate and based on justice and fairness. This is because according to Islamic philosophy, ownership is considered to be a trust from Allah which has been bestowed on the rich so that they may utilize it correctly. In Islamic economics the role of the individual, has inclinations and his aims and objectives occupy a central position and are vitally important. He is definitely a rational being but his level of rationality is not confined to the calculations of cost and profit. An individual does not want merely to obtain monetary profit and physical pleasure and leisure but he also wants and aims for something beyond what the material world has to offer. The main aim of the study is to find out the relationship between Islam and economics. In Islamic economics the comprehensive moral training of the individual, his technical and educational ability, his aims and his priorities are of primary importance. According to Islamic economics the means of acquiring wealth has the same importance as wealth itself. Dishonesty, abuse of trust and earning of wealth through fraudulent ways and means may perhaps increase the status of an individual but the society suffers because of it on the whole. This leads to an unjust and oppressive economic system.

The Free Responsible Action of the Individual

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. DeJonge
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Extreme Situation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Responsible Action ◽  
Action Type ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

If, as Chapter 12 argues, much of Bonhoeffer’s resistance thinking remains stable even as he undertakes the novel conspiratorial resistance, what is new in his resistance thinking in the third phase? What receives new theological elaboration is the resistance activity of the individual, which in the first two phases was overshadowed by the resistance role played by the church. Indeed, as this chapter shows, Bonhoeffer’s conspiratorial activity is associated with what he calls free responsible action (type 6), and this is the action of the individual, not the church, in the exercise of vocation. As such, the conspiratorial activity is most closely related to the previously developed type 1 resistance, which includes individual vocational action in response to state injustice. But the conspiratorial activity differs from type 1 resistance as individual vocational action in the extreme situation.

Embodying the culture of achievement: Culture between illness and perfection is a ‘thin line’ – obtaining the ideal female body as an act of achievement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110040
Author(s):  
Josefine Dilling ◽  
Anders Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Body Ideals

In this article, we argue that certain behaviour connected to the attempt to attain contemporary female body ideals in Denmark can be understood as an act of achievement and, thus, as an embodiment of the culture of achievement, as it is characterised in Præstationssamfundet, written by the Danish sociologist Anders Petersen (2016) Hans Reitzels Forlag . Arguing from cultural psychological and sociological standpoints, this article examines how the human body functions as a mediational tool in different ways from which the individual communicates both moral and aesthetic sociocultural ideals and values. Complex processes of embodiment, we argue, can be described with different levels of internalisation, externalisation and materialisation, where the body functions as a central mediator. Analysing the findings from a qualitative experimental study on contemporary body ideals carried out by the Danish psychologists Josefine Dilling and Maja Trillingsgaard, this article seeks to anchor such theoretical claims in central empirical findings. The main conclusions from the study are used to structure the article and build arguments on how expectations and ideals expressed in an achievement society become embodied.

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