The female body politics in Platonic discourse: A feminist reading
Abstract
Plato’s The Republic is considered to be amongst
seminal works throughout the history of philosophy. It consists of variety of
subjects ranging from politics in general to human beings in particular. What
makes The Republic groundbreaking is
the fact that a variety of Platonic thoughts, one of which is about ‘the
presence of the female body in politics,’ is introduced and represented in the
book. On this regard, this study explores Platonic thoughts related to the female
body politics within the scope of theoretical analyses. It is scrutinised that
Angela Carter’s authentic views challenge and subvert patriarchal ideology
whose norms authoritatively determine
‘the presence of women’ and dictate ‘the politics of their bodies.’ Therefore,
it is within the purpose of this study to explore how Platonic thoughts that
are mere-fantasy which harms women ideologically are challenged and disregarded
by Carter.
Keywords
Kaynakça
- Aristotle. (1981). The Politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair, London: Penguin Books. Bordo, S. (1993). Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, London: University of California Press. Canto, M. & Goldhammer A. (1985). “The Politics of Women’s Reflections on Plato,” Poetics Today, vol. 6, no. 1/2, The Female Body in Western Semiotic Perspectives, pp.275-289. Duke University Press, Web, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1772134. Accessed: 31 October 2014. Carter, A. (1998). “Notes from the Front Line,” Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings, introd. Joan Smith, London: Penguin Books. pp.26-30. Carter, A. (2011). Heroes and Villains, introd. Robert Coover, London: Penguin Modern Classics. Cavallaro, D. (2011). The World of Angela Carter: A Critical Investigation, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. Plato. (1974). The Republic, trans. Desmond Lee, Second ed. London: Penguin Books. Rousseau, J.J. (2012). The Body Politic, trans. Quintin Hoare, UK: Penguin Classics. Yeandle. H. (2017). Angel Carter and Western Philosophy, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Çelik Ekmekçi
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0000-0002-7123-2621
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
21 Kasım 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
30 Eylül 2019
Kabul Tarihi
20 Kasım 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019
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Trakya Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
https://doi.org/10.33207/trkede.1650741