TY  - JOUR
TT  - POLITICIZING THE PERSONAL: DORIS LESSING’S “TO ROOM NINETEEN” AND “HOW I FINALLY LOST MY HEART” AS FICTIONAL VERSIONS OF SECOND WAVE FEMINISM’S SLOGAN
AU  - Özyurt Kılıç, Mine
PY  - 2017
DA  - September
DO  - 10.18026/cbayarsos.341004
JF  - Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
PB  - Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1304-4796
SP  - 265
EP  - 282
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
KW  - second wave feminism
KW  - gender and space
KW  - private versus public space
N2  - This article aims to show that although Doris Lessingrejects the relatively narrow categorisation of her writing as “feminist”, thetwo short stories she wrote in 1963, “To Room Nineteen” and “How I Finally LostMy Heart”, make the claims of second wave feminism visible. As they illustratea wholistic attitude that sees human beings beyond labels, the stories’emphasis on the need to bridge the artificial gap between public and privaterealms supports the second wave feminism’s slogan: “The personal is political!” The article argues thatas socialconstructs that conceptualize different realms of everyday life, public andprivate spaces are understood as gendered, therefore a separation between themis part of a patriarchal political structure that imposes a restriction onwomen’s personal lives. As a writer who problematizes artificial divides insocial life, Doris Lessing clearly imbues her works with this consciousnessthat goes hand in hand with the central discussions of second wave feminism’sconsciousness raising groups.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.341004
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/345929
ER  -