چهارمین کنفرانس بین المللی پژوهش های کاربردی در مطالعات زبان , 2016-11-25

Title : ( Representation of Female Body in the Social Context of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale )

Authors: samira haghi , Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh , Zohreh Taebi Noghondari ,

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) explore the notion of femininity in the context of a dystopian society of Gilead. In this totalitarian society, women are defined by reproduction ability of their bodies. Exploitation, objectification and alienation of the handmaid’s body can be explored in both the text and the context within which the novel has been written. In this novel, the negative and instrumental view towards female body can be explored in the light of biological and social contexts. The underlying assumption of these discourses is that female body can be manipulated and appropriated by patriarchal ideology in the name of religion and social reform. Tracing views on body in history, religion, society and the novel itself, this paper attempts to explore how female body is represented and perceived. The following study focuses on the ways each of biological and social views try to define female body with certain functions and consequently identify women based on deterministic gendered ideologies It also discusses the body’s potential to act as an empowering force to oppose different manifestations of power.

Keywords

, The Handmaid’s Tale, body, gendered views, social context, power, dystopia
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@inproceedings{paperid:1064105,
author = {Haghi, Samira and Ghorban Sabbagh, Mahmood Reza and Taebi Noghondari, Zohreh},
title = {Representation of Female Body in the Social Context of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale},
booktitle = {چهارمین کنفرانس بین المللی پژوهش های کاربردی در مطالعات زبان},
year = {2016},
location = {تهران, IRAN},
keywords = {The Handmaid’s Tale; body; gendered views; social context; power; dystopia},
}

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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Representation of Female Body in the Social Context of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
%A Haghi, Samira
%A Ghorban Sabbagh, Mahmood Reza
%A Taebi Noghondari, Zohreh
%J چهارمین کنفرانس بین المللی پژوهش های کاربردی در مطالعات زبان
%D 2016

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