WOMAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE IN BUILDING WOMAN'S GENDER IDENTITY
KADIN CİNSEL KİMLİĞİNİN İNŞASINDA KADIN EDEBİYATI VE DİL

Author : Hayriyem Zeynep ALTAN
Number of pages : 144-163

Abstract

Sexuality of woman and the meaning of being a woman are such cronical problems lasting from the first days of socialization up to today. When we had a look at mankind history; we see that, except a short period in the hegemony of Mother Goddess Cult, man's activity is the only source of all socialization customs. Although this patriarchal system is being changed according to the traditions in making culture and the quality of the necessary democrasy, a common property could be seen clearly: Gender identity of woman is built in the social enviorenment without considering her contribution. This study has two purposes: Firstly, to describe the patriarchy as a process that negating femininity and then to question the efficiency of feminizm and woman literature as potentialities in reversing this hegomonic system. This text focusing on Feminist Criticism Theory, uses a theoretical approach method. In this sudy, woman literature, appeared in 19th Century, is discussed according to the contri

Keywords

Woman, Gender Identity, Feminist Criticism, Literature, Language

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