"Delving İnto The Dichotomy Of Mother Earth and Fatherland in 'The Wanderground' and 'The Cleft”

Year 2024, Volume: 12 Issue: 33, 145 - 177, 31.05.2024

Zainab Jabbar

https://doi.org/10.31126/akrajournal.1389525

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between women and nature in Doris Lessing's The Cleft and Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground through using gender and ecofeminist lenses. Women's oppression is analogous to nature's oppression. Therefore, this article shows how a patriarchal (or male-dominated) society treats both nature and women and how society's standards unfairly dominate both. Both writers Sally Miller Gearhart and Doris Lessing argue that women and the environment, including (animals) are crucial to ecofeminism studies and practice; women may solve gender issues only by utilizing natural materials. The present piece portrays the female characters in both works acquiring an understanding of the underlying reasons behind every instance of misery they encounter in their lives. As a result, women attempt to escape the machismo society and create a nature-filled utopia (devoid of males). Although some women continue to live with men, they always opt for separation. Finally, this work shows how Gearhart's utopia is the outcome and redemption of The Cleft’s dystopia.

Keywords

Mother Earth, The Cleft and The Wanderground, animal liberation, environmental safety

Project Number

1

“The Cleft ve The Wanderground Çalışmalarında Bulunan Toprak Ana ve Baba Vatan İkilisi”

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Doris Lessing'in The Cleft ve Sally Miller Gearhart'ın The Wanderground adlı eserlerinde kadın ve doğa arasındaki ilişkiyi toplumsal cinsiyet ve ekofeminist bakış açısıyla incelemektedir. Dolayısıyla bu makale, ataerkil (veya erkek dominantli veya üstünlüğünde) bir toplumun hem doğaya hem de kadına nasıl davrandığını ve toplum standartlarının her ikisine de nasıl adaletsiz bir şekilde hâkim olduğunu göstermektedir. Her iki yazar da kadınların ve doğanın (hayvanlar da dâhil) çevrenin ekofeminizm çalışmaları ve uygulaması için hayati öneme sahip olduğunu savunur; kadınlar toplumsal cinsiyet sorunlarını ancak doğa ile çözebilir. Bu eser, her iki kitaptaki kadın karakterleri, hayatlarında karşılaştıkları sefalet örneğinin arkasında yatan nedenleri anlayarak tasvir ediyor. Sonuç olarak, kadınlar eril toplumundan kaçmaya ve doğayla dolu (erkeklerden yoksun) bir ütopya yaratmaya çalışırlar. Bazı kadınlar erkeklerle yaşamaya devam etseler de her zaman ayrılığı tercih etmektedirler. Son olarak bu akademik çalışma Gearhart'ın ütopyasının nasıl The Cleft'in distopyasının sonucu ve kurtuluşu olduğunu ortaya çıkarıyor.

Keywords

Toprak Ana, The Cleft ve The Wanderground, hayvan özgürlüğü, çevre güvenliği

Ethical Statement

I will act with utmost integrity and pursue my work in an honest and ethical manner. I will take responsibility for my actions and consider the effects on this journal. I accept that all the words written in the text penned by me and not published in anywhere else.

Project Number

1

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