SUBVERSION OF OPPRESSIVE AND MANIPULATIVE PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE IN FAY WELDON’S DARCY’S UTOPIA

Yıl 2018, Sayı: 30, 333 - 342, 15.01.2018

Şebnem Düzgün

Öz

In Darcy’s Utopia (1990), Fay Weldon envisages a utopian world, in which women are emancipated from the socio-economic
and political oppression of the patriarchal society. The writer challenges male authority, and reveals the contradictions in the
patriarchal system through manipulating patriarchal discourse, which supports the supremacy of men. The present study
examines the impact of ideology and discourse on the regulation of the power relations between men and women through
referring to the ideas of Foucault, and the second-wave feminists. It aims to show that Weldon subverts male ideology which
naturalizes the superiority of men, and argues that power relations are not natural but they are ideologically constructed. The
study concludes that the author believes that the oppression of women and their exploitation are ideological.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Fay Weldon, Darcy’s Utopia, Women, Patriarchy, Oppression, Manipulation

FAY WELDON’IN DARCY’NİN ÜTOPYASI’NDA BASKICI VE SÖMÜRÜCÜ ATAERKİL SÖYLEMİN YIKILMASI

Öz

Darcy’nin Ütopyası’nda (1990), Fay Weldon, kadınların ataerkil toplumun sosyo-ekonomik ve siyasi baskısından kurtulduğu
ütopik bir dünya tasarlar. Yazar, erkek otoritesine karşı çıkar ve erkeklerin üstünlüğünü destekleyen ataerkil söylemi manipüle
ederek ataerkil sistemdeki çelişkileri açığa vurur. Bu çalışma, Foucault ve ikinci dalga feministlerin fikirlerine atıfta bulunarak,
ideoloji ve söylemin kadın-erkek arasındaki güç ilişkilerinin düzenlenmesi üzerindeki etkisini inceler. Weldon’ın erkeklerin
üstünlüğünü doğallaştıran erkek ideolojisini yıktığını ve cinsiyetler arasındaki güç ilişkilerinin doğal olmadığını, ancak
ideolojik olarak yapılandırıldığını savunduğunu göstermeyi amaçlar. Çalışma, yazarın kadınların baskılanmasının ve onların
sömürülmesinin ideolojik olduğuna inandığı sonucuna varır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Fay Weldon, Darcy’nin Ütopyası, Kadınlar, Ataerkillik, Baskı, Sömürü

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