scholarly journals Analyzing Feminine Subjectivity in Male Jingoistic Society: A Critical Study of Naheed's A Bad Woman's Story

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 365-373
Author(s):  
Amna Aziz ◽  
Aniqa Rashid ◽  
Tayyabba Yasmin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminism Theory ◽  
Independent Existence

The present study tends to explore the feminine subjectivity as a heart-throbbing phenomenon for men that keeps on prevailing in a patriarchal society. This is an exploration into the life of Pakistan's renowned writer, poet and human activist, Kishwar Naheed. Her autobiographical writing Buri Aurat ki Katha (A Bad Woman's Story) probes into the life of a female character who is being restrained by society due to her achievements and fame but gender discrimination prevailing in society compelled her to consider herself a stigma. Naheed is taken as a representative character to project the reality of a patriarchal society that denies feminine subjectivity in society. It covers gynophobia over men's mind towards women powerful and independent existence in society. This study contextualizes within the border of feminism theory that covers threat to female identity by throwing light to the perspective taken by Kristeva's views on feminism, majorly focusing on male jingoistic society. The present inquiry spotlights the ways in which women suffer through threatened, identity crisis, abuse, and oppression that further leads woman's journey of life restrained under social commands.

scholarly journals Prejudice Nation: Hypersexualization and Abuse in Jude Dibia’s Unbridled

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110326
Author(s):  
Chinenye Amonyeze ◽  
Stella Okoye-Ugwu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Implicit Bias ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Culture Of Silence

With the global #Metoo movement yet to arrive in Nigeria, Jude Dibia’s Unbridled reflects an emblematic moment for the underrepresented to occupy their stories and make their voices heard. The study analyzes patriarchy’s complicated relationship with the Nigerian girl child, significantly reviewing the inherent prejudices in patriarchy’s power hierarchies and how radical narratives explore taboo topics like incest and sexual violence. Contextualizing the concepts of hypersexualization and implicit bias to put in perspective how women, expected to be the gatekeepers of sex, are forced to navigate competing allegiances while remaining submissive and voiceless, the article probes the struggles of sexual victims and how hierarchies in a patriarchal society exacerbate their affliction through a culture of silence. Arguing that Dibia’s Unbridled confronts the narrative of silence in Nigerian fiction, the article explores ways the author empowers gender by challenging social values and traditional gender roles, underscoring gender dynamics and the problematic nature of prevalent bias against the feminine gender in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Blue Mountain and Blue Roses: An Exploration of the Feminine Psyche in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-205
Author(s):  
Namitha V. S
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Blue Mountain ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Southern Belle ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams, the remarkably outstanding American dramatist of the 1920s, through his plays, presents a marked concern for the identity crisis a woman faces. He projects the crisis arising out of the conflict between a woman’s own aspirations and the traditional role expectations. The Glass Menagerie (1945) depicts the life of two women- Amanda Wingfield and her daughter Laura Wingfield. Amanda is the typical Southern belle that suffered a reversal of economic and social fortune, who withdraws from reality into fantasy. Her daughter Laura, the physically and emotionally crippled heroine of the play is a self-less character who does not speak as much of others. She is extra-ordinarily sensitive and delicate; and her cripple isolates herself into her own illusory world with her own glass menagerie. This paper is an attempt to close study the women protagonists in this play and to reveal that they are a combination of a particular personality type. Williams seems to be interested in the personal and psychological aspects of his women. This paper tries to analyse the psyche of these women and prove that they seem to be more complex and complicated than portrayed in the work.

scholarly journals Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes Entre réécriture de l’Histoire et invention de soi

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Lamrous
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Right

The study of Maïssa Bey’s novel Surtout ne te retourne pas allows to examine how the Francophone novel represents an earthquake as a poetic, metaphorical and political shockwave. The novel is part of a literary tradition but also shows the singularity of the writing and the engagement of the Algerian novelist Maïssa Bey. It allows to examine the feminine agentivity in the context of the disaster camps in Algeria: from the ravaged space/country emerge the voices of women who enter into resistance to improvise, invent their lives and their identities. The earthquake allows them to free themselves, to take a subversive point of view at society and their status as women in an oppressive patriarchal society. The staged female characters arrogate to themselves the right to reread history and take their destiny back.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL STUDY OF INDIAN DIASPORA THROUGH THE NAMESAKE BY JHUMPA LAHRI

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Education Culture

In this paper researcher does a critical study of the very famous novel Namesake written by Jhumpa Lahiri. In this novel author has endeavoured to describe the mentality of Indians who are in abroad. How they are confronted with the daily issues related to many things like religion, education, culture, belief system, identity crisis and so on. Researcher here has done a critical study of both the movie and the novel and reach the conclusion with the special reference to Indian Diaspora.

scholarly journals Menyoal Jenis Kelamin Allah dalam Perspektif Teologi Feminis: Menuju Teologi yang Lebih Berkeadilan terhadap Perempuan

Humaniora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Christian Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Attributes Of God

Gender inequality is often regarded as a divine creation (everything comes from God, or commonly known, already by nature). This is where the Christian theology actually gets a touchstone. Because theology should be a critical reflection religion on factual issues faced by the public, so that it should talk not only about the concept of invicible God, but also that metaphysical translated into social issues—particularly women's issues. At that point, theology of woman is a theology which explores the feminine aspects of God for the sake of gender equality. This study attempted to trace the theological dimensions of women as well as exploring the feminine attributes of God so that gender equality can be realized, or at least theology does not fold its eyes, or theology is to be fair to the existence of woman. This research is a literature study using representative literature data and relevant to the object of research. Research used philosophical approach with descriptive-analytic-critical method by doing interpretation, extrapolation, the meaning of the data in reaching a conclusion. Results showed that the lowering of woman feminine quality is equivalent to neglect the feminine quality of God. On that basis, gender discrimination actually has no theological justification, but is a denial of the reality of God as a whole. The reason is gender relations are impressively has been represented by God. 

Cultural, historical and psychoanalytic contributions to female identity in China: a discussion of articles by Tong Jun and Wang Qian

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
Paula L. Ellman
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Application ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
Female Development ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Unconscious Fantasy

This article offers a discussion of two articles that are both considerations of the intersection of culture and the psyche. The development and conflicts within the Chinese woman's psyche are examined within the context of the history, values, and culture of China. This article considers the place of the powerful maternal imago in understanding the denigration of the feminine position. The presence of unconscious fantasy along with intergenerational trauma is examined, particularly in instances of misogyny. The contributions to the psychoanalytic theory of femininity and female development is reviewed with a discussion of clinical application.

The Poetics of Feminine Subjectivity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and ‘a Lover’s Complaint’

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa E. Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Female Promiscuity

This chapter explores how we might be compelled to alter our understanding of the emergence of gendered identifications and hierarchies if we were to borrow some of the rethinking of sexuality that queer theory has done with regards to same-sex desire and apply it to other non-normative sexualities—in this case, female promiscuity. Modern scholars have largely rejected the stigma attached to homoerotic desire and practice, and they have thereby been able better to understand and contest the cultural privileges accorded to heterosexual relationships. Similarly, by rejecting the stigma attached to female promiscuity, we as critics can examine how this stigma works to sustain gendered hierarchies. Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint dramatize the power of the discourse of promiscuity to shape the horizons of female identity and male prerogative.

scholarly journals Beyond a Single World: Pedagogy and Relating in Difference

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Petra Mikulan
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Planning ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Relational Values ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The World ◽  
Central Notion ◽  
New Form ◽  
Single World

The central notion of my analysis is that the relational values that are privileged by the feminine, if properly addressed in school, could foster a more inclusive and embodied way of addressing the fundamentally masculine origin of knowledge, curriculum planning as well as daily school rituals and cultures. For this reason I evoke the horizon of sense as captured by Irigaray in her two-ness of the world to designate a positive place for feminine subjectivity in the relational economy of the you and I, her and him. The economy of the placenta is evoked as a new form of connectedness enfolding a new kind of communication in a pedagogical interaction - where multiplicities and differences are privileged over sameness. ‘Touch’ is given primacy in the formation of a dialogue that does not appropriate but instead evokes the sharing of a desire in the two-ness of the world.

scholarly journals The Exploration of Female Identity in the Father-Daughter Dynamic in Caroline Bowles's Poetry

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina I. Simonova Strout
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Masculine Norms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
To Come

The work and literary accomplishments of Caroline Bowles Southey established her significance as a poet in the Romantic tradition as well as contemporary culture. Similar to many other women writers, she worked within the established poetic genres against the conformity of the masculine norms of Romanticism. The father-daughter relationship is not new, yet in Caroline Bowles’s poetry it becomes a symbol of the patriarchal relation of women and men in society, a precursor to the questioning of woman’s role and place in culture. This paper aims to examine the father-daughter dynamic in Ellen Fitzarthur and Birth-Day. Bowles interrogates the ambivalence of self: the private and the public persona, which has to come to terms with the demands and pressures of patriarchal society. To achieve self-fulfillment a woman has to be free from the power of the father. Caroline Bowles’s poetry is such an attempt to strive towards the personal and poetic independence from the expectations of the patriarchal society.

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