Feminine Social Space in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah’s Gourd Vine”
Feminine Social Space in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah’s Gourd Vine”
Author(s): Péter Gaál-Szabó Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: Social space is predominantly viewed by literature as masculine, i.e. it produces a framework of masculine hegemony regarding, in the first place, the distribution of work, time, and place (Bourdieu, 2000:17-18). The order constructed renders social space public, hegemonic, and heterosexual (see Hanson and Pratt). This transparent space (Rose, 1993:40), however, also entails a feminine social space, which, on the one hand, bears similar traits to masculine transparent space regarding its structure; and, on the other hand, is contested by the urge of subjective place-construction in an alternative social space.
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 05
- Page Range: 43-52
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
