PARADIGMATIC SHIFTS IN THE THEORY ON PATRIARCHY: SUBJECTIFICATION OF ‘WOMEN'

Year 1997, Volume: 15 Issue: 2, 187 - 199, 31.12.1997

Şule Toktaş

Abstract

The theory
on patnarchy conceptualizes the position of women by oppression
and regards women as objects of some exclusive form of


hegemonic system. Accordingly women are manipulatèd and controlled. Such
a paradigm that places women in the margins of economic, social and political
life is questionable, for the experiences of women in patriarchy
are not only constitutive of oppression but of reproduction, resistance
and negotiation as well. In this sense, a paradigmatic shift on the
theory of patriarchy is necessary by which women are subjectified with
placement at the center. Subjectification refers to the treatment of women
in patriarchy as active agents who are not totally powerless but have their own
resources and spheres of power. How women manipulate the
manipulation of them selves is central to this subjectification and so the
paradigmatic shift

Keywords

Patriarchy, Gender; Power; Resistance: Woman

References

• Abu-Lughod, Lila (1990), "The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power through Bedouin Women" American Ethnologist, Vol. 17, Iss, l, pp: 41-55.