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The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

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The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

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Considering both Michel Foucault’s disciplinary, bio-power, and biopolitics concepts, I will support Atwood insights about women’s growing subjugation and argue with relevant examples from the novel that in the near future, the family unit will be torn apart by power relations under the control of an oppressive regime and neoconservative ideology. With the rising neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies all around the world, people have begun to lose their hopes in bright futures and felt the bell jar over their heads in the 21st century. Margaret Atwood began to carry the banner for feminist dystopias with The Handmaid’s Tale, written in 1985. In a country called Gilead, ruled by a totalitarian regime, women are considered slaves who perform certain inferior tasks and exist in order to give birth to healthy ubermensch babies for Commanders. In creating this dystopian world, Atwood emphasizes the deformation in society and establishes a hierarchy system in which women are objectified, and marginalized. In this way, she shows the reader how a patriarchal society is shaped through fiction and Atwood criticizes all institutions in their own way. The Handmaid’s Tale, as an important example of feminist dystopian literature, reveals women’s future struggle for freedom and the oppression they will be subjected to, and Atwood meticulously narrates their story. This novel by Atwood holds a mirror to the political and social problems of our time, leading readers to ponder and question the future within the framework of a dystopian universe.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Kadın Araştırmaları

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

30 Kasım 2023

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Kasım 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

10 Haziran 2023

Kabul Tarihi

6 Kasım 2023

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2023 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Güleşce, Ü. (2023). The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi, 6(2), 444-458. https://doi.org/10.33708/ktc.1312679
AMA
1.Güleşce Ü. The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. KTC. 2023;6(2):444-458. doi:10.33708/ktc.1312679
Chicago
Güleşce, Ülkü. 2023. “The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”. Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi 6 (2): 444-58. https://doi.org/10.33708/ktc.1312679.
EndNote
Güleşce Ü (01 Kasım 2023) The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi 6 2 444–458.
IEEE
[1]Ü. Güleşce, “The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”, KTC, c. 6, sy 2, ss. 444–458, Kas. 2023, doi: 10.33708/ktc.1312679.
ISNAD
Güleşce, Ülkü. “The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”. Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi 6/2 (01 Kasım 2023): 444-458. https://doi.org/10.33708/ktc.1312679.
JAMA
1.Güleşce Ü. The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. KTC. 2023;6:444–458.
MLA
Güleşce, Ülkü. “The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”. Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi, c. 6, sy 2, Kasım 2023, ss. 444-58, doi:10.33708/ktc.1312679.
Vancouver
1.Ülkü Güleşce. The biopower and biopolitics concepts and reflections of them on women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. KTC. 01 Kasım 2023;6(2):444-58. doi:10.33708/ktc.1312679

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