The purpose of this study is to cultivate a cultural theoretical understanding of 'feminism'. Furthermore, the purpose was to look into the possibilities of what direction ‘feminism’ could go in the future.
What I am trying to argue through this study ...
The purpose of this study is to cultivate a cultural theoretical understanding of 'feminism'. Furthermore, the purpose was to look into the possibilities of what direction ‘feminism’ could go in the future.
What I am trying to argue through this study is in particular leaning on Bell Hooks, a black women's rights activist. As she argued, feminism should be recognized as an essential element that constitutes education and life on a daily basis. In order to break away from the elitist, that is, sexist hierarchical order, ‘feminism’ must be viewed from the level of very basic human rights education. More specifically, feminism should be not just a movement for women, but a driving force that enables a world where we can all live together, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, culture, race, class, and other hierarchies.
This study starts with an overview of the overall development process of the women's human rights movement and is limited to dealing with discussions that can be a possible direction in discussing feminism today. Poems selected for this purpose include Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's 'In the Castle Tower', modern poet Ulla Hahn's 'Everything', and Ingeborg Bachmann 'A Kind of Loss' and finally, 'To Africa' by the South African poet Koleka Putuma.
In particular, through the first three poets, it deals with how the sexist structure is portrayed and how women react or respond in it. In the process, the discussion of theorists such as Bell Hooks, Nancy Fraser, and Svenja Flaßpöhler is cross-read. In other words, by reading poetry and feminism-related discourses instead of a hermeneutic approach to poetry, it reveals how the patriarchal order has worked and has oppressed women.
We need to recognize that we are all different and make it a condition for endless dialogue. As one possibility for that, we can suggest Flaßpöhler's 'potent woman(potente Frau)'. The voice of this 'potent woman' is one that can be heard in Futuma's poetry. As Slavoj Žižek put it, 'subject, as such, is the name given to a kind of fundamental displacement, wound or amputation in the fabric of the world'. A potent woman can be one direction that can create a gap as a new possibility in the world of unlevel playing field.