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Patience : a gender perspective
Anderson-Rajkumar, Evangeline
Anderson-Rajkumar, Evangeline
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"The word ‘Patience’ comes from the Latin word ‘pati’ which means suffering; ‘pati’ is also the common root for other words like Patient. Synonyms for the word ‘Patience’ include long suffering, forbearance, endurance, and so on. In the 17th century, the Puritans decided to turn the word Patience into a feminine name. When viewed from a gender perspective, it does not seem an accident in the game of patriarchy, to turn ‘Patience’ into a feminine name, because of the familiar paradigm of constructing sexist and gender stereotypes as a way of reducing a human to a commodity. The idea of ‘an ideal woman’ as “long suffering, patient, enduring woman” has to be defined, neatly packaged, decoratively advertised and sold as a product in the global (Moral!) market. One of the common ways in which patriarchy is perpetuated for generations is by defining an ideal female body, constructing a myth to legitimize that logic, and by controlling the meaning and potential of a woman’s body by using it as a private and public ‘site’ to inscribe values that can be publically defined [...]"
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2016
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9782889311224
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