Woolf ve Atasü’deki Ataerkil Çıkmazların Beden ve Bilinç Bütünlüğü ile Yıkılması

Abstract

It has always been women that become the primary
 victims of oppression as they have been defined in terms of their relations
 with men, who have been regarded as the breadwinners, heads of the household
 and decision-makers. Imposed to believe that they have to feed men’s egos by
 being passive, innocent, soft, graceful, nurturing and accepting, women have
 internalized the ideology of self-denial and they find it improper to demand
 things for themselves. Undoubtedly that all of these particular experiences of
 women that stem from the phallocentric patriarchal structure and its dominant ideologies
 put women into the ‘double-bind’ situations, where women are judged against a
 masculine standard. As long as women are assessed by that standard, they are
 obliged to lose, whether they claim difference or similarity. In this respect,
 Virginia Woof and Erendiz Atasü, carrying the double burden of being both a
 ‘woman’ and a’ woman writer’ in a patriarchal society, are trapped in these
 double-bind situations and lose their body-mind unity as they are divided
 between their roles as a woman and aspirations as an artist. Considering these
 facts, this study, basing its argument on the theories of post-structuralist
 feminism, aims to present how Woolf and Atasü de(con)struct and demystify the
 patriarchally imposed gender roles, and achieve a spiritual balance and union,
 ‘wholeness’, through combining the masculine mind and feminine body.