THE PRESENT/RECENT/CLOSİNG TİMES OF WOMAN: A FOUCAULDİAN APPROACH TO AYŞE KULİN’S NARRATİVE WORLD
KADININ GENİŞ/DAR/SON ZAMANLARI: AYŞE KULİN’İN ANLATI DÜNYASINA FOUCAULTCU BİRYAKLAŞIM

Author : Mukadder ERKAN
Number of pages : 384-394

Abstract

There have been gender discrimination and violence against women throughout history. Although there have been many campaigns to give voice to the legal and economic equality demands of women reduced to “desire object” to improve their status in societies and to react against pornography and the violence against women, the dominant perspective of patriarchy has driven forward gender patterns which especially our society in a distortedly modernized process widely embraced and used as a basis to keep women under pressure. These patterns have been imposed so systematically that both men and women have internalized the behavioral rules they ordered. This kind of internalization, as Michel Foucault puts in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, is the most pervasive and effective sort of social control. The Panopticon of Jeremy Bentham becomes a metaphor for this insidious kind of control. In this study the violence against women and the internalization mechanism in the three short

Keywords

Ayşe Kulin, Foucault, pressure, violence, internalization

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