Woman and Power in a Family (An analysis of quality of content of six bestselling novels in last decade)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies Department, Social Sciences Faculty, Allametabatabai Universit, Iran

2 M.A. Cultural Studies, Social Sciences Faculty, Allametabatabai University, Iran

Abstract

The present study depicts the analysis of quality of content of six bestselling novels from 1999- 2010. In this study, it has been tried to answer the questions how the power of women is shown (representation) by their female authors and also in these novels what kind of relations between a woman and family is clarified and how their experiences in the family are illustrated. The conceptual frame work of present study has been formal by social study of the novels, the position of popular literature in cultural studies as well as relationship between women and the novels, role and power of women in the family. According to certain criteria, namely the bestselling of the novels, third period of women’s story writing (base on Mirabedini’s category) their writing, coincidence of writers and main characters of the novels, both of them are females, and also the story which is based on the formation of women’s power in the family, these six novels have been chosen. The methodology in this study is based on analysis of quality of content of the novels. One of the characteristics of this analysis, unlike other methods which emphasizes on pouring theoretical methods, is that it uses the categories that got from theoretical patterns. In this research, the focus is on extracting the main elements repeated in the novels and those that help us to achieve our goals and by specified categories and theoretical methods and examples which are related to the research questions the novels are analyzed. With regard to refereed categories and elements in the novels and their analysis by use of them, it is understood that women are in search of new definitions of identity and power in family. Also in these novels women are defined whit presence of men and they feel happy and fortunate with men not without them. So this is one of the reason they are bestsellers.

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Sociology of Art and Literature
Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring & Summer
September 2013
Pages 53-81

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