Feminist scholarship and the social construction of woman

Deconstructing Gender in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire

“…They label the former as a purely cultural construct, and see the latter as a fundamentally biological distinction. To be specific, "feminist scholarship undertakes to 'deconstruct' the social construction of gender and the cultural paradigms that support it" (Greene and Kahn, 1985). And, "The social construction of gender takes place through ideology .…”

“…. Ideology makes contradictions, offers partial truths in the interests of a false coherence" (Greene and Kahn, 1985).…”

“…Moreover, literature does not simply involve passive reflection of ideology. It plays a significant role in the construction of the same: "literature does more than transmit ideology: it actually creates it" (Greene and Kahn, 1985). Hence, "Feminist literary critics attend to the collusion between literature and ideology, focusing on the ways ideology is inscribed within literary forms, styles, conventions, genres and the institutions of literary production".…”

“…Another important opposition, which warrants discussion, is the Madonna/Whore opposition, which refers to a kind of classification, grounded in "male attempts to control feminine sexuality" (Greene and Kahn, 1985). Barret explains the sexist politics with regard to this opposition as follows:…”

Masak, Macak, Manak Nowadays through Challenge-Based Research on Nol Dance Creation

“…Along with the development of the era and the level of intellectuality in which there has been a social change in society, it has given rise to several new patterns of thinking about cultural values (Rioufol 2004). Many research results show that patriarchal ideology is increasingly giving space for the existence of women as an important subject (Greene and Kahn 2020;Bannerji 2020). This is the momentum that becomes the entry point for the idea of creating works.…”