scholarly journals Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Ayesha Khaliq ◽  
Mamona Yasmin Khan ◽  
Rabia Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
A Site ◽  
Body Theory

The female body is more than often used as a site to perpetuate violence and oppress women in patriarchal societies. The current study aims to explore how patriarchal oppression targets the female body and how it enforces women to become subalterns having no voice in the selected fictional work, Half the Sky by Kristoff and WuDunn. For this purpose, Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) and Bryan Turner's The Body theory (1984) are used as theoretical frameworks to explore the selected novel. The research is descriptive qualitative, and placed within the interpretive paradigm. The data for the present study is in the form of textual paragraphs, which is taken from the selected novel and is collected through the purposive sampling technique. The study argues on women's oppression and violence. The findings of the study revealed that the dominancy of male counterpart in every field of life is the basic reason for women oppression which leads to the women being subalterns.

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 role of the female body in contesting and negotiating space in sports for women in rural and urban Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Obert Bernard Mlambo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Gender Ideals ◽  
A Site ◽  
Embodied Practice

This article examined attitudes, knowledge, behavior and practices of men and society on Gender bias in sports. The paper examined how the African female body was made into an object of contest between African patriarchy and the colonial system and also shows how the battle for the female body eventually extended into the sporting field. It also explored the postcolonial period and the effects on Zimbabwean society of the colonial ideals of the Victorian culture of morality. The study focused on school sports and the participation of the girl child in sports such as netball, volleyball and football. Reference was made to other sports but emphasis was given to where women were affected. It is in this case where reference to the senior women soccer team was made to provide a case study for purposes of illustration. Selected rural community and urban schools were served as case references for ethnographic accounts which provided the qualitative data used in the analysis. In terms of methodology and theoretical framework, the paper adopted the political economy of the female body as an analytical viewing point in order to examine the body of the girl child and of women in action on the sporting field in Zimbabwe. In this context, the female body is viewed as deeply contested and as a medium that functions as a site for the redirection, profusion and transvaluation of gender ideals. Using the concept of embodiment, involving demeanor, body shape and perceptions of the female body in its social context, the paper attempted to establish a connection between gender ideologies and embodied practice. The results of the study showed the prevalence of condescending attitudes towards girls and women participation in sports.

French Women, Italian Art, and Other “Advocates of the Body” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Z. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
Italian Art

Displays of sanctified eroticism in The Minister's Wooing reveal Harriet Beecher Stowe's conviction that the body is inherently holy. The author's experience of religious paintings and her observation of French women in Europe deepened her belief that the female body is an instrument of spirituality, as can be traced in the novel.

scholarly journals The One with the Feminist Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 692-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Hamad
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site

In the aftermath of its initial broadcast run, iconic millennial sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994–2004) generated some quality scholarship interrogating its politics of gender. But as a site of analysis, it remains a curious, almost structuring absence from the central canon of the first wave of feminist criticism of postfeminist culture. This absence is curious not only considering the place of Friends at the forefront of millennial popular culture but also in light of its long-term syndication in countries across the world since that time. And it is structuring in the sense that Friends was the stage on which many of the familiar tropes of postfeminism interrogated across the body of work on it appear in retrospect to have been tried and tested. This article aims to contribute toward redressing this absence through interrogation and contextualization of the series’ negotiation of a range of structuring tropes of postfeminist media discourse, and it argues for Friends as an unacknowledged ur-text of millennial postfeminism.

scholarly journals "Jeg er kvinde" - Kroppen som baggrund i "Det andet køn"

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tori Moi
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Writing Theory ◽  
Second Sex

The article discusses the possibilities of writing theory as a woman without neglecting the claims of the female body. Through a close reading of The Second Sex the author discusses the possibilities of situationg the body as either background or foreground depending on the situation of enunciation. Following Beauvoir's analyses the article concludes that while in some situations the fact of sex will be less important than the fact of class or race, in other situations it will not. The oppression of women consist in the compulsory foregrounding of the female body at all times, wether it is relevant or irrelevant to the task in the hand.

scholarly journals (Ad)dressing the female body

Scene ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Madaleine Trigg
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

This visual essay presents a body of work that uses a ‘language of flesh’ and fabric to make explicit the relationship between the body, image and our increasingly material world. Recognizing that our skin is a site of inscription for social and cultural ideals, it considers how these images have been internalized and appropriated onto the body. As the temptation to sculpt our body through clothing and cosmetic surgery becomes increasingly pressing, it is important to pose questions as to how and why we are fashioned. Weaving together feminist concerns, and touching upon (syn)aesthetic discourses to frame and embellish these samples of practice, it is hoped that certain assumptions about the female body are ruptured. Using the site/sight of the body to try and expose these fabrications, I have created these ‘articulate’ costumes to unpick them.These costumes are critical as they deny their conventional function, instead opening up and celebrating the visceral, living body. These subversions, in undermining typical narratives of fashion and flesh, create a space to (re)present this body; allowing it to speak for itself. (Ad)dressing the female body here refers to material and physical strategies to un/dress; in order to readdress our corporeal and conceptual understanding of the body.

Fashioning the Nation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raka Shome
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
White Female ◽  
White Femininity ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Britain

This chapter explores the relationships among fashion, white femininity, multiculturalism, and the nation. More specifically, it asks how a “fashionable” white female body comes to signify a nation's modernity given the link between fashion and newness, and how shifts in dominant fashion styles signify shifts in a nation's temporality. Focusing on Princess Diana's changing fashion style, the chapter considers the relationship between fashion and cultural politics as well as fashion as a citizenly discourse in New Britain. It also situates the engagement of Diana's body (as well as the body of other white national women such as Cherie Blair) with Asian and particularly Indian fashion, paying attention to the emerging phenomenon of celebrity black (Western) women and Indo-fascination. By analyzing the link between contemporary multiculturalism and fashion, the chapter shows how (white) female fashion functions as a site through which shifting spatiotemporalities of the nation are narrated while raising several interrelated issues regarding national modernity and gendered appearance.

scholarly journals Migrasi simbolik wacana kuasa tubuh: menguak wacana tubuh dalam Ode untuk Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch karya Dinar Rahayu

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Ida Nurul Chasanah
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Pros And Cons

The presence of Indonesian women writers with the dominant discourse of the power of body, presenting the pros and cons that would not go over. Female body is the language of women that can be poured through the writing of literary works. Helene Cixous brought the spirit of "writing the body" to motivate women authors to express himself through written discourse, which so far has been dominated by men. Cixous spirit is also promoted by Dinar Rahayu appear in the novel Ode untuk Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch. Dinar Rahayu voicing complexity of urban women's voices in this novel through several migration symbolic of the power of the female body. Migration is enriched by the presence of symbolic power in a sound body of Greek and Scandinavian mythology and Leopold voices in his work Venus in Furs. Through in-depth reading on the symbolic migration brought to the Ode untuk Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch through the voices of the characters and the particularities of naration techniques can be seen that this novel (as well as other sexist novels) is not merely a commodity that exploit sexuality pornography but rather an attempt to author urban female voices will be the "body power". This study uses content analysis method that begins with the reading of literature, heuristic and hermeneutic, and take advantage of intertextuality approach.

scholarly journals Exploring Racism, and Anxieties of Identity in Aslam's Selected Work

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Sameen Nisar ◽  
Mamona Yasmin Khan ◽  
Aqsa Choudhry
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Black Skin ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The question of identity and sense of displacement is always fundamental for culturally displaced people. The objective of the Diaspora writings is to explore the construction of new identities in new cultural places and the painful experiences of migration. The present study aims to explore the issue of identity and racism in selected fictional works, Season of the Rainbirds (1993) and Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) by Aslam. For this purpose, Bhabha's 'The Location of Culture' (1993) and Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Mask's (1952) are used as theoretical frameworks to scrutinize the selected novels. The research is descriptive qualitative, and placed within the interpretive paradigm. The data for the present study is in the form of textual paragraphs, which is taken from the selected novels and is collected through the purposive sampling technique. Findings of the study revealed that hybrid identities of minorities and immigrants are resulting because they are marginalized by the majority class and are subjected to racist and stereotypical attitudes, which help in hybridization.

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