Lamb Women vs. Lion Women

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Lamb Women vs. Lion Women

Journal Title: Researcher: Social Science Studies - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 2

Abstract

In Angela Carter’s fictions, there are two kinds of women: the first can be named as a “lamb woman” who has a puppet like character, is repressed by the society and cannot act as an individual; however, the other one is utterly the opposite: This kind of women can be named as a “lion woman” since she takes the strings into her own hands and lives her life according to her own rules and ideas. In a very patriarchal society like Turkey, it can be stated that Carter’s lamb type of woman exists more rather than the lion type. Besides, these lamb women are subjected to extreme violence and die every year in Turkey like the passive female protagonists in Carter’s novels. The purpose of this paper is to analyse Carter’s portrayal of femininity in selected examples of writings with the aim of demonstrating the similarities between Carter’s puppet like lamb women and women in Turkey who are slaughtered by men to reclaim their honour. Within the scope of this study, Carter’s novel The Passion of the New Eve (1977) and her non-fiction The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1979) were chosen.

Authors and Affiliations

Elif GÜVENDİ YALÇIN, Betül OZCAN DOST

Keywords

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