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Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing

This paper examines the relationship between women and men and how the women had to live, behave and react in 1960s America in the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by the twentieth-century American author, Tillie Olsen (1912-2007). The story revolves around the protagonist, ‘mother’, and he...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada, Bahar, Ida Baizura
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2014
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spelling my.upm.eprints.503572017-02-28T05:28:30Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50357/ Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada Bahar, Ida Baizura This paper examines the relationship between women and men and how the women had to live, behave and react in 1960s America in the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by the twentieth-century American author, Tillie Olsen (1912-2007). The story revolves around the protagonist, ‘mother’, and her daughter, Emily, where the women are depicted as confined within constrained identities, having to live in a world where they have to be obedient and having to live up to men’s expectation. With the pressure enforced by the expectations of the patriarchal society and the idea of ‘feminine mystique’, the women seem to be devoid of any romantic feelings. Based on a textual analysis as our methodology, our study focuses on women’s position in the second wave feminism period by using the feminist concept of the feminine mystique, as the conceptual framework, as outlined by Betty Friedan in her book, The Feminine Mystique (1963). Our findings demonstrate that the reasons behind the female protagonist’s barren emotions for men are because of her sense of obligations on completing the domestic demands, the expectations set by the patriarchal society and because of the judgemental eyes of the men in the patriarchal society in general. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50357/1/Feminine%20mystique%20and%20the%20patriarchal%20world%20in%20Tillie%20Olsen%27s%20I%20Stand%20Here%20Ironing.pdf Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada and Bahar, Ida Baizura (2014) Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing. Journal of Language and Communication, 1 (2). pp. 247-257. ISSN 2289-649X http://www.fbmk.upm.edu.my/sp/page/2861/jlc_bm
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description This paper examines the relationship between women and men and how the women had to live, behave and react in 1960s America in the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by the twentieth-century American author, Tillie Olsen (1912-2007). The story revolves around the protagonist, ‘mother’, and her daughter, Emily, where the women are depicted as confined within constrained identities, having to live in a world where they have to be obedient and having to live up to men’s expectation. With the pressure enforced by the expectations of the patriarchal society and the idea of ‘feminine mystique’, the women seem to be devoid of any romantic feelings. Based on a textual analysis as our methodology, our study focuses on women’s position in the second wave feminism period by using the feminist concept of the feminine mystique, as the conceptual framework, as outlined by Betty Friedan in her book, The Feminine Mystique (1963). Our findings demonstrate that the reasons behind the female protagonist’s barren emotions for men are because of her sense of obligations on completing the domestic demands, the expectations set by the patriarchal society and because of the judgemental eyes of the men in the patriarchal society in general.
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author Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada
Bahar, Ida Baizura
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Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing
author_facet Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada
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title Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing
title_short Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing
title_full Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing
title_fullStr Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing
title_full_unstemmed Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing
title_sort feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in tillie olsen's i stand here ironing
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
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