Woman, Home, and the Question of Identity: a Critical Review of Feminist Literature
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Date
2013
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Kılıçkıran, Didem
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Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi Kadın Araştırmaları ve Eğitimi Merkezi
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Abstract
Much ink has been spilled over the association of women with the material
and imaginary geographies of the home. In this paper, I will discuss this
association with reference to the feminist literature on the home, which, in
the second half of the last century, produced a fascinating critique of the
home as part of a larger debate on the connection between space and
place and the construction of gender relations and ideologies. I will focus
particularly on how the problem of the home in feminism has been defined
as one of identity, referring to some key works in feminist literature that
have put forward notions of the home as a place that women have to leave
behind if they are to find their identities beyond those imposed upon them
by society at large. In doing this, I will also give voice to criticisms that
have been raised from within feminism itself against a totally negative
depiction of the home, and discuss whether it is possible to envisage a
more positive image of the home in feminism in relation to women’s
identities.
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Feminism, Home, The feminist critique of home, Woman, Place, Identity
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14
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1
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1
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28