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Citation |
Moreno MC. Circunstancia 2007; (12): online. |
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(Copyright © 2007, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset 2003) |
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Abstract |
Mothering, viewed as an ideological form, works as a social mechanism that, by adjusting to male-dominant assumptions, helps to perpetuate male abuse against women. This essay focuses on the ways the patriarchal relationship between mother and daughter gives birth to potential victims of gender violence who have been trained to accept their own secondary status as passive, devalued and dependent beings. Gender violence episodes constantly reproduce men’s dominance and women’s subordination. This basic power relation of patriarchy is one of the primary lessons that a daughter learns from a mother who has been in turn taught that she belongs to the domestic and powerless domain and that her ultimate role in life is marriage and child-care. By merging a psychoanalytical and a cultural approach, this essay reveals how the analysis of the conflictive mother-daughter bond in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle presents the novel as part of a feminist discursive practice that denounces the complicity of motherhood in gender violence. |