The Intersectionality of Female Agency
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2020-08-30
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Agency and intersectionality are two notions which are frequently in the foreground of discussions within theories of gender equality. To construct an argument on how agency and intersectionality influence each other, and how they work within a dystopian novel, Naomi Alderman’s The Power (2016) will be analysed. Research into the construction of agency with regards to intersectionality aims to gain new perspectives in power structures. The novel’s different narrators allow for a close-reading from different perspectives, which will induce an in-depth analysis on the construction of agency within different societal structures.
Considering the dystopian genre of the novel, Alderman has created a mirrored world which functions as metaphor. This metaphor is used to actively criticise the ways in which power is structured, and female oppression by the patriarchal society in which we live.
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