Patriarchy

Predominance and the Patriarchy: Feminist Criticism in Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen’s classic novel, although published in a time period where women were very repressed, contains contemporary feminist ideas. Each of Austen’s characters possess various quirks and flaws that show women are more than their stereotypes. Women can be strong and independent, but also kind and romantic. Jane Austen’s portrayal of women creates a commentary on the stereotypical views of women and the unjust…

In the discourse of post colonialism, the centre and the margin maintains a dichotomous relation and India’s Northeast offers a potential space for narrativizing internal colonization and dispossession from a gendered praxis. My paper seeks to address these issues as touched upon in her novel The Collector’s Wife by well known Assamese writer and columnist Mitra Phukan, by making a symptomatic reading of the text through a postcolonial feminist lens. The gendered realities existing amidst…

By engaging with the historical knowledge of such disempowered women, Spivak expands the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in…

The journey to find true identity can take a lifetime, and I have certainly changed over the years. Being only 20 years old, I am sure I will continue to change as I age, but I genuinely like the person I am today. I am intelligent, aware, funny, professional, and loving. These characteristics summarize who I am, and although I do not categorize them by gender, the traditional thinking of a patriarchal society does. I do think that intelligence has become slightly more gender-neutral, but has…

Throwing a radical overhaul on the framed aspect of Patriarchy and Feminism, we understand Patriarchy as the dominance of male power exclusively over women. On the other hand Feminism is a political crusade focusing on the equality of the woman 's clan and not ‘superiority’. The concept of Patriarchy bee 's existence with women having to be in the picture without which the very idea of talking about either would be despicable. Succinctly redefining, Patriarchy should not and cannot be limited to…

The Metanarrative In the film the Whale Rider, the once complimentary narratives that governed the Maori culture: Gender, Identity, and Traditions are competing against one another. The fundamental elements of these narratives have stayed unchanged; However, some characters are interpreting these liturgies to their own personal narratives, causing conflict within the Maori Culture. Synopsis of film During a time of modernization, poverty, and the decentralization of the Maori’s culture, one…

The use of sexual description of female victims also acts as a method of victim blaming (Malamuth & Check, 1981). The way in which a victim is described and the details surrounding her persona play an influential role in the way she is represented. The inclusion of details of her past relationships, her appearance, whether she had been drunk or on drugs, where she had been and what her activities are often aimed to blame the victim for her attack (Meyers, 1997). In the same report on the rape…

Atrocities of patriarchy has long been a way of life for many households throughout history, yet in today’s culture, both men and women can become the head of house, so to speak. This has overthrown the patriarchy system into a whirlwind loop since women have become more independent and no longer depend on men to aid them in financial burdens, child raising, and employment ventures. Additionally, the new generation of American society has other factors that play roles in the patriarchy system.…

Patriarchy is defined as a system of society and government in which males have the majority of the power and women are excluded. Society is organized in a way which makes patriarchy a societal norm in which males control women and their, “Supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children,” (Merriam Webster). Man are able to act in a derogatory manner towards women, where sexual harassment has become a normative action and had been regarded to as harmless…

Ancient or modern, the society is always male oriented and views women as objects for pleasure. Even when the government advocates policies to protect women, their safety, integrity and honour are consistently being questioned and violated. The problem lies in the collective psyche of the society, which includes both men and women. The sensibility is fashioned according to the male norms and thus the females in our society either witness or participate in their own subjugation process. This…