What is Eating Marian MacAlpin?: A Feminist Reading of Margaret Atwood´s The Edible Woman. 2000 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis

Abstract [en]

In my essay I discuss how the protagonist, in Margaret Atwood´s novel The Edible Woman, feels trapped and isolated in a male dominated world. I also discuss the concepts of victimisation, objectification and consumption of women in the novel, and how it is that the men in the book are seen as the consumers and the women as the ones being consumed. By looking on the novel from a point of view combining feminist and psychological concerns I show in my essay what derestating effects patriarchal, consumer obsessed society may have on a young woman´s life.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages

2000.

Keywords [en]

feminism, Margarete Atwood, eating disorders, victimisation, objectification, consumption of women

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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-9150Local ID: U3679OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-9150DiVA, id: diva2:364242

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Humanities, Theology

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Denna uppsats kan beställas från arkivet / This paper can be ordered from the archive. Kontakta / Contact: arkivet@hh.seAvailable from: 2010-11-09 Created: 2010-11-09Bibliographically approved

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