Dısempowered ‘others’ and the female solıdarıty ın sue townsend’s bazaar and rummage (1982)
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2015
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İnönü Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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The patriarchal order of the society pushes the woman behind the surface mostly by regarding
them as the secondary sex. As a result of this, they are ‘othered’ through gender and sexuality or
economic and social issues, and thus feel repressed because their femininity, sexuality and even
individuality are denied in order to maintain only the continuance of the patriarchal order within society.
Yet not only men but also women discriminate against the female as ‘the other’ by inheriting this
patriarchal ideology in their consciousness due to the normalisation of the constructed process of
othering. Sue Townsend in her play Bazaar and Rummage (1982) describes this construction and
internalisation of otherness imposed by both men and women. In the play, a group of agoraphobic
women try to confront their fears by organizing a rummage sale through which the origins of their
illness are explored. Agoraphobia is a symbolic symptom to represent what these women have gone
through as a result of the repressive patriarchal order and how the fear of ‘outside’ – which is regarded as
a man’s place, not woman’s – makes them psychologically crippled since this whole system restricting
and oppressing them in so many ways do not allow women to have their own identities and makes them
subjected to this system. However in the end, Townsend promotes a female solidarity to heal these
women’s psychological wounds by going against their fear and anxiety.
Keywords: Othering, imposition and internalisation of the otherness, repressive and inherited
patriarchal order, agoraphobia, female solidarity
Açıklama
İnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Cilt 4, Sayı 2, 2015, s. 151-160.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Othering, İmposition and internalisation of the otherness, Repressive and inherited patriarchal order
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Şimşek, T. Dısempowered ‘others’ and the female solıdarıty ın sue townsend’s bazaar and rummage (1982).
