You can’t keep the woman in the wallpaper
The agency of the woman and the house from Homer to modern feminist literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol20.296Keywords:
New Materialism, Gender, Agency, Inclusivity, HomerAbstract
This article uses new-materialist approaches to explore the dynamic and two-way interaction between the woman and the house from ancient Greek literature to the works of Ismail Kadare, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sue Townsend and Daisy Johnson. It shows the ethical import of the New Materialisms in terms of inclusivity, shifting our focus to underrepresented agents and questioning hierarchical approaches to both materiality and the female. If women are confined to the domestic domain, their agency will interact with that of the house: whether in collaboration, or antithesis.
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