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AUTHOR
Zita Kārkla
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Sieviete latviešu prozā ginokritikas aspektā (1960-2010)
2015
Elektroniskā versija nesatur pielikumus
Representations of Woman’s Body in Prose by Latvian Women Writers
2013
Feminism has been deeply concerned with female body either as something to be rejected in the pursuit of intellectual equality or as something to be reclaimed as the very essence of women. Another alternative, associated with feminist postmodernism, seeks to emphasize the importance and inescapability of embodiment rather as a differential and fluid construct than as a fixed given. Different female body representations are inscribed in Latvian women’s prose from 1960s to 2010. As it was common for Soviet literature, also in prose of Latvian women writers of the period body and sexuality, especially the female one, was left beyond the discussion, mostly figuring as the unspoken. If woman’s b…