Representation of Female Body in the Social Context of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Publish Year: 1395
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 19 خرداد 1396
Abstract:
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) explore the notion of femininity in the context of a dystopian society of Gilead. In this totalitarian society, women are defined by reproduction ability of their bodies.Exploitation, objectification and alienation of the handmaid’s body can be explored in both the text and thecontext within which the novel has been written. In this novel, the negative and instrumental view towards female body can be explored in the light of biological and social contexts. The underlying assumption of these discourses is that female body can be manipulated and appropriated by patriarchal ideology in the name of religion and social reform. Tracing views on body in history, religion, society and the novel itself, this paperattempts to explore how female body is represented and perceived. The following study focuses on the ways each of biological and social views try to define female body with certain functions and consequently identify women based on deterministic gendered ideologies It also discusses the body’s potential to act as an empowering force to oppose different manifestations of power
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Samira Haghi
M.A Student of English Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Mahmoud Reza Ghorban Sabbagh
Assistant Professor, English Dept., Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad,Iran
Zohre Taebi
Assistant Professor, English Dept., Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
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