Womanism in Nawal El Saadawi's Daughter of Isis and Alice Walker's Anything We Love Can Be saved

Bu çalışma Walker‟in kadıncılık/kadınizm‟ kavramı çerçevesinde, Nawal El Saadawi ve Alice Walker‟in radikal feminizmi reddetmesinin sebeplerini tartışmayı ve bunun onları nasıl kendi mücadelelerini tanımlamak nasıl ve neden kadıncılık‟ kavramına/yaklaşımına yönelttiğini araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaca yönelik olarak çalışma El Saadawi‟nin Daughter of Isis (1999) ve Walker‟ın Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1998) çalışmalarında ön plana çıkan kadıncılık vizyonu ve kadıncılık tanımını belirleyen temel fikirleri araştırıyor. Çalışma spesifik olarak Walker ve El Saadawi‟nin kadın haklarını dünya çapında savunmadaki cüretkarlıkları, ve aktivizmlerinin küresel özelliği üzerinde yoğunlaşıyor. El Saadawi ve Walker‟ın kadın haklarına olan güçlü bağlılıklarının, aktivist olmalarının ve politik tartışmalarda yer almalarının cüretkarlık‟ kavramı ile özdeşleştiği tespitini yapıyor. Bunların yanı sıra çalışmayı zenginleştireceği ve tartışmayı kolaylaştıracağı düşüncesiyle kadıncılık‟ kavramının tanımı ile ilgili tartışmalara da geniş yer veriliyor.

Nawal El Saadawi'nin İsis'in Kızı ve Alice Walker ın sevdiğimiz her şeyi kurtarabiliriz isimli eserlerinde kadıncılık

Taking Walker‟s definition of womanism as a framework, this paper aims to point out reasons for Nawal El Saadawi and Alice Walker‟s rejection of the radical feminist movement, and how this rejection leads them to search for terms, such as womanism, to describe their struggle. Moreover, the paper will discuss their womanist ideas as explicated in two of their works, Daughter of Isis (1999) by El Saadawi and Anything we Love Can Be Saved (1998) by Walker. The paper, in other ways, tries to highlight the main womanist visions that are delineated in both works. More specifically, the study will examine two principal womanist ideas that are obvious in these works: audaciousness especially in defending the worldwide women‟s rights, and the global trait of their activism. Closely related with audaciousness are El Saadawi and Walker‟s interest in women‟s issues, being activists, and taking part in political debates. To serve our objective, a detailed definition to the term womanism will be discussed as a way to point out the main tenets of this movement.

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