Browsing by Subject "Patriarchal society"

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    A brief look at the elegy tradition in terms of the status of women in patriarchal societies
    (2006) Aydın, Hilal
    It is observed that, a genre of folk literature, "elegy" which consists of the oral and melodic expression of the feelings triggered by events causing pain and sorrow, is generally performed by women. Thus, elegies can provide us with the information regarding the status, perspective and creativity of women in a patriarchal society. The purpose of this text is to evaluate the information in question in ternis of the content, style, and function of elegies and also to call attention to the fact that elegies, as they are performed mostly by women, are appropriate for analysis within the frame of feminist criticism. The other purpose of this text, deriving from this last statement concerning elegies and feminist criticism is to pose some questions vis-a-vis the possibility of expanding the critical horizons related to this genre.
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    Woman as an object of sexual activity within the context of slang and curse
    (2006) Tüzin, D.
    Why do references focus on woman sexuality when one uses curse and swearwords? Moving on from this question, in this piece of study, in which the approach towards women is examined in the context of slang expressions and curse, the data that has been acquired by the shifting through the work called "The Great Slang Dictionary" (Büyük Argo Sözlüǧü) by Hulki Aktunç, are recognized as indicators. It is possible to observe the flourishing judgment based on the estimation that there is a one-to-one relationship between language and sex, in the slang and curse usage. The slang and curse, which can prove that the "woman" has been seen as the "other"-when considered in terms of both cultural and linguistic codes- in patriarchal societies as it could also be viewed in the examples provided in the study, becomes a fact that one encounters as a field and a style of speech in the sovereignty of men.