and their hereditary and economic status. Bronte is examining and critiquing the political issues of the patriarchal society in the 19th century through the use of her characters in the novel. While it was conventional for women to aspire and seek marriage as the final goal in life, the narrative questions this attitude by refusing to conform to convention, yet still portraying a patriarchal system. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Shirley Keeldar is the primary example for progressive femininity
traditional gender discourse? Written by Australian playwright Jack Davis in 1985, the protest play No Sugar follows the journey of a Nyoongah family, the Millimurras, and the hardships and struggles they face during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was during that period where both European and Aboriginal women were very much marginalized by society and still played the traditional role of mother, wife and nurturer. Jack Davis reinforces certain aspects of traditional gender discourse in No Sugar
better, but also actually see how the reception of the play has changed as society's standards of criticism and discourse changed over the intervening years. One is able to see how shifting views on patriarchy lead to a change in the play's reception, and particularly the characterization of Willy Loman, who transforms from a tragic, albeit flawed man into the contemptible lackey of a patriarchal, capitalist society that has little regard for human health or happiness. The first critical response to
the Victorian period, built unbreakable embankments against the patriarchal flow, paved the way for the free flow of matriarchy and establishes gender equality and above all sets stage for humanity through their works. Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre and Anne Bronte wrote Agnes Grey. They wrote these novels based on their own experiences and close observation of life and conditions of women in male dominated society. Their works of fiction depict the saga of women’s
of the issue, but because of the patriarchal relationship between the two of them he feels completely justified in keeping information from his wife. As Martha Cutter argues in Frontiers of Language: Engendering Discourse in “The Revolt of 'Mother'”, “ordinary language does not provide Sarah Penn with a tool for communication, since patriarchal discourse systematically excludes women as speakers” (282-283). Because of the systematic exclusion of feminine discourse domestic housewives were left without
of Tora, along with the reporter, unite as a female collective to transform the legendary prostitute from a silent absence to an active voice, a privilege traditionally reserved for the male. Further transgression of traditional patriarchal authority is manifest in the novel’s conscious detachment from the male-centred text to Restrepo’s gynotext which gives precedence to innovative, “women-centred priorities”. (Catherine Davies). Restrepo, who herself shares biographical parallels with her novel’s
Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction – Teresa de Lauretis (1987, University Indiana Press) After reading Technologies of Gender it is easy for me to imagine author Teresa deLauretis comfortably discussing the impacts of patriarchal gender identity construction - which, she convincingly argues, is the goal of the titular technologies – over espresso with the feminist likes of Virginia Woolf and Adrienne Rich (both of whom she invokes throughout this work). Indeed, such is
for Integrating Women and Schleiermacher Secondary literature abounds with feminist discourse, and likewise, many scholars delight in the challenge of Schleiermacher’s thought. Still, employing his theology to respond to feminist concerns, at first glance, appears problematic. The intersection of these two interests is complicated as a result of three rather recent historic dilemmas (1) feminists often reject male theologies (2) even those women sympathetic to the plight of feminism often reject feminism
the second-wave feminism, The Madwoman in the Attic is still useful in handling the relationship between women and language, especially when it is in comparison with other strands of theory. Culturally, women writers’ revision of the existing male discourse that the book suggests bears remarkable resemblance with de Certeau’s tactic against strategy. Psychoanalytically, women writers’ pursuit of successful foremothers corresponds well with Chodorow’s “Pre-Oedipal Gender Configurations”. Hence, the
distinguishes an oppressive, patriarchal, conceptual framework providing the theoretical underpinnings that inform demonstrations of traditional, hegemonic masculinity. She suggests that this set of basic beliefs is buttressed by hegemonic masculinity in practice and has traditionally provided western societies justification for marginalizing both women and the nonhuman natural world. Moreover, Warren’s claims are substantiated by both Carol Cohn’s explication of gender discourses’ permeation of other