TY - JOUR TT - DISEMPOWERED ‘OTHERS’ AND THE FEMALE SOLIDARITY IN SUE TOWNSEND’S BAZAAR AND RUMMAGE (1982) AU - Şimşek, Tuğba PY - 2015 DA - December JF - İnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi JO - INIJOSS PB - Inonu University WT - DergiPark SN - 2147-0936 SP - 152 EP - 160 VL - 4 IS - 2 LA - en KW - Othering KW - imposition and internalisation of the otherness KW - repressive and inherited patriarchal order KW - agoraphobia KW - female solidarity N2 - The patriarchalorder of the society pushes the woman behind the surface mostly by regardingthem as the secondary sex. As a result of this, they are ‘othered’ throughgender and sexuality or economic and social issues, and thus feel repressedbecause their femininity, sexuality and even individuality are denied in orderto maintain only the continuance of the patriarchal order within society. Yet not only men but alsowomen discriminate against the female as ‘the other’ by inheriting thispatriarchal ideology in their consciousness due to the normalisation of theconstructed process of othering. Sue Townsend in her play Bazaar and Rummage (1982) describes this construction andinternalisation of otherness imposed by both men and women. In the play, agroup of agoraphobic women try to confront their fears by organizing a rummagesale through which the origins of their illness are explored. Agoraphobia is asymbolic symptom to represent what these women have gone through as a result ofthe repressive patriarchal order and how the fear of ‘outside’ – which isregarded as a man’s place, not woman’s – makes them psychologically crippledsince this whole system restricting and oppressing them in so many ways do notallow women to have their own identities and makes them subjected to thissystem. 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