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https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/1.11.lc.4

The Field of Marriage: Cultural Capital and Women’s Submissiveness in the Light of Pierre Bourdieu

Marzieh Kouchaki ; Islamic Azad University, Iran
Hassan Shahabi ; Islamic Azad University, Iran
Shahram R. Sistani ; Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran

Sažetak

Since the dawn of history, women have always been subjected to and condemned by men’s will; their choices and power have been limited by men’s authority and domination in patriarchal societies due to their gender. This paper examines Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Parinoush Saniee’s The Book of Fate and demonstrates a reciprocal relationship between cultural capital and women’s subordination in the marriage field, the analysis of which will be based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts of field, capital, and habitus. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts as well as the contextual analysis of the selected novels, the findings of this paper indicate that women’s submissiveness, present in different patriarchal societies throughout history, is the outcome of men’s use of culture as a sort of capital to retain and reproduce their power and domination in all fields, even those related to women, including the field of marriage.

Ključne riječi

Pierre Bourdieu, field, cultural capital, habitus, women’s submissiveness, Wives and Daughters, The Book of Fate

Hrčak ID:

248285

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/248285

Datum izdavanja:

15.12.2020.

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