A Little Breathing Room : A Look At Feminism
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published 16/05/2008
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Summary“ ‘To speak behind others’ backs is the ventilator of the heart…’ and in this way we began a long session of ventilation of the heart” (Satrapi). With these words, Marjane Satrapi sets the stage for Embroideries and her intimate insight into the lives of women in an Iranian family, specifically her family. Over tea, these women, young and old, open up and reveal personal stories in an attempt to bond and to discover what it truly is not only to be an Iranian woman but also to be “woman.” In this sense, feminist theory found in Simone de Beauvior’s “The Second Sex” can be applied to the accounts of the women in the novel to demonstrate how women often depend upon men for their identity.
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- Theorizing in The Second Sex Simone de Beauvior.
- The application of de Beauvoir's theory to Satrapi's book.
- Finally, Azzi's tragic tale of her Swiss lover reveals that the One can neglect or consciously violate decency in dealing with the Other.
- Separated from her family at the age of thirteen, one married (arranged) a man who was sixty-nine years old.
- The entire book Embroideries acts an exercise in feminist separation by itself.
- The feminist theories of Simone de Beauvior and Marilyn Frye apply to Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries.
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