Gendered Spaces.ppt

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1、GenderedSpacesWhataresomeexamplesofgenderedsettings(privateandpublic)?Whatfunctionsdothesesettingsperforminregardtogenderroles?Howaremenandwomensupposedtobehaveincertainplaces?HistoryofHareminstitutionTheriseofpatriarchySeclusionandveilingImperialharemsOrientalismandhare

2、mfantasyintheWesternimagination“Myharemwasassociatedwithahistoricalreality.Theirs[theWesterners’]wasassociatedwithartisticimagescreatedbyfamouspainterssuchasIngres,Matisse,Delacrioux,orPicasso-whoreducedwomentoOdalisques(aTurkishwordforafemaleslave)-orbytalentedHollywood

3、moviemakers,whoportrayedharemwomenasscantilycladbelly-dancershappytoservetheircaptors…whateverimagetheyreferredto,thejournalistsalwaysdescribedtheharemasavoluptuouswonderlanddrenchedwithheavysexprovidedbyvulnerablenudewomenwhowerehappytobelockedup.”(Mernissi,Scheherazade

4、GoesWest)WhatdoesthedisparitybetweenthepopularOrientalistnotionofharemandMernissi’saccountsuggestabout“theMuslimwoman”?MarxistfeministslookatgenderoppressionasaformofclassoppressionwhilesomeotherfeministsregardpatriarchynotasasubsetofCapitalismbutasaprobleminitsownright.

5、Whatdoyouthinkinthisrespect?Powerofwords:StorytellingasamatteroflifeanddeathWhowasScheherazade?“Shaharazadhadreadthebooksofliterature,philosophyandmedicine.Sheknewpoetrybyheart,andstudiedhistoricalreports,andwasacquaintedwiththesayingsofmenandmaximsofsagesandkings.Shewas

6、intelligent,knowledgeable,wiseandrefined.”(TheArabianNights)AnindigenousfeministiconforArabMuslimwomen“Rightwords”and“therighttolive”WhowasDinarzad(Dunyazad)?InMernissi’saccountwordsdeterminetheboundarybetweenlifeanddeath.Fatima’smotherteachesherthat“herchancesofhappines

7、swoulddependuponhowskillful[she]becamewithwords”(Dreams16).AndWoolfdemands,“ifwehavethehabitoffreedomandthecouragetowriteexactlywhatwethink…ifwefacethefact…thatthereisnoarmtoclingto…andthatourrelationistotheworldofrealityandnotonlytotheworldofmenandwomen,…thedeadpoetwhow

8、asShakespeare’ssisterwillputonbodywhichshehassooftenlaiddown.…Shewillbeborn”(207).Howsimilarordifferent