A Midlife Dream: Bodily and Spiritual Integrity
Öz
Through centuries, the patriarchal construction of women’s bodies as disobedient, uncontrollable and as an evil source of disruption to the social order has formed the misogynist system that silences women’s voices and ignores their bodily experiences. Captivated in that system, women have been estranged from their bodies and from their sexualities, and in time, they acquire a split identity and self-understanding as they are merely considered silent and passive objects of male desire. Nevertheless, believing that the female body is an important site of struggle and resistance against the patriarchal structures, and an indispensable medium also through which a woman can articulate her repressed and ignored desire, Erendiz Atasü adopts to depict independent female characters in her works that experience their sexuality as an expression of power and free will. Considering those issues concerning women/women’s bodies and basing its argument on the theories of de(con)structing the phallocentric discourses, this study analyzes one of Atasü’s most sexually explicit works, A Midlife Dream, to unveil and question the relationship between female body and sexuality as well as proving that spiritual and sexual integrity is obtained merely through full body awareness.
Anahtar Kelimeler
bodily and spiritual integrity, female body, female sexuality, de(con)struction, patriarchal dichotomy
Kaynakça
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