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‘NIGHT MOTHER: WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF CULTURE

Yasemin Güniz Sertel(İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ, AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI ANABİLİM DALI)
Pages
43–48
Publication Date
2018-06-06
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The analysis is also enriched with a literary approach as there are illustrations from the feminist American playwright Marsha Norman’s play ‘ night Mother which exemplifies women’s obsessive relationship with their bodies and, eating disorders in the form of excessive eating (obesity/ compulsive eating) or in the total refusal of eating (anorexia).

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Objective & Hypothesis:This study is based on a systematic social, cultural and psychological analysis of contemporary woman’s relationship with the Body Politics and Eating Disorders especially in Western societies from the perspective of socialist feminism.
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Key Findings & Data:This study is based on a systematic social, cultural and psychological analysis of contemporary woman’s relationship with the Body Politics and Eating Disorders especially in Western societies from the perspective of socialist feminism.
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Conclusion & Impact:The analysis is also enriched with a literary approach as there are illustrations from the feminist American playwright Marsha Norman’s play ‘ night Mother which exemplifies women’s obsessive relationship with their bodies and, eating disorders in the form of excessive eating (obesity/ compulsive eating) or in the total refusal of eating (anorexia).
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⚙️Variables:Beden politikası · yeme bozuklukları · Amerikan tiyatrosu

Abstract

This study is based on a systematic social, cultural and psychological analysis of contemporary woman’s relationship with the Body Politics and Eating Disorders especially in Western societies from the perspective of socialist feminism. The analysis is also enriched with a literary approach as there are illustrations from the feminist American playwright Marsha Norman’s play ‘ night Mother which exemplifies women’s obsessive relationship with their bodies and, eating disorders in the form of excessive eating (obesity/ compulsive eating) or in the total refusal of eating (anorexia).

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Bu çalışma, çağdaş kadının batılı toplumlarda Beden Politikası ile olan ilişkisini ve bu politikanın içselleştirilmesi sonucu ortaya çıkan ve genelde kadınların deneyimlediği sosyo-kültürel kaynaklı patolojik hastalıklar olarak değerlendirilen yeme bozukluklarını sosyalist-feminist kuram ışığında tartışır. Marsha Norman’ın bu çağdaş temaları sahneye koyduğu oyunu Night Mother , ana kadın karakterlerin sosyo-kültürel değerlere bağlı olarak beden politikası ve yeme bozukluklarının farklı boyutlarından ne şekilde etkilendiklerini irdelemektedir.

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Sertel, Y. G. (2018). ‘NIGHT MOTHER: WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF CULTURE. Marmara Üniversitesi Kadın ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Araştırmaları Dergisi, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1, 43–48. https://doi.org/10.26695/mukatcad.2018.15

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