Education and Virginity in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969)
| dc.contributor.author | Daf, Saida | |
| dc.contributor.author | Khacha, Karima | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-15T08:35:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-15T08:35:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | 30cm ; 54p. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This piece of research attempts to investigate the notions of “education” and “virginity” as two important issues that have deep impact on women’s lives in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Edible Woman (1969). To reach our aim, we have relied on Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist theory included in her book The Second Sex (1949). In our analysis of this topic, we have divided our discussion into two chapters. The opening chapter stresses on the notion of women’s education which has always been an area of concern and considered as being a threat to patriarchal societies. This idea is highlighted by both educated and non-educated female characters of the novel including Marian, Clara, and the lady down below to demonstrate the harsh reality in which they lived and the subordinate position they occupied in work place and all aspects of their life. In its turn, the second chapter analyzes the notion of virginity through the other subordinate female characters: Ainsley and the three virgins: Emmy, Millie, and Lucy by depicting the negative impact of virginity on their lives and the way the patriarchal society used it as a weapon to oppress women morally, physically, and socially. By analyzing Atwood’s novel, it is revealed that women’s education did not end patriarchy. Educated or not, women face hardships to achieve equality in society; their inferior position and submissiveness is due to society negligence of their education. Additionally, it is also displayed that virginity as a social construct continues to make life difficult for women, it curtail their opportunities and freedom and chains them with fear of losing it. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Littérature and Civilisation | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/16972 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou | en |
| dc.subject | education, feminism, patriarchy, virginity, women. | en |
| dc.title | Education and Virginity in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969) | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |