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The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland
This study, which analyzes the meaning and experience of womanhood in Igbo land, reveals a power inequality, captured by the depiction of women as the property of men. Though most of the intuitions found in post-structuralism might be confirmed in our analysis (e.g., that discourse produces the subj...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869417 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00008 |
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description | This study, which analyzes the meaning and experience of womanhood in Igbo land, reveals a power inequality, captured by the depiction of women as the property of men. Though most of the intuitions found in post-structuralism might be confirmed in our analysis (e.g., that discourse produces the subjects and that language operates alongside power and social control), my greatest motivation in this essay is different: it proposes that power inequality as evident in the depictions of women and their oppressive subordinating consequences therein are not consciously intended by all classes of agents while acting in accordance with normal rules and accepted practice; an aspect that is usually lacking in other accounts of the institutionalization of social realities where dominant discourse, collective intentionality etc., are usually emphasized. Whence the questions: What is then the origin of unequal power distribution among the sexes? And what is the origin of unintended but oppressive images and subordinating depictions of women as the property and unequal of men? Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre, I make an elaborate use of passive synthesis as developed by Husserl's analysis of perceptual objects and phenomenological perception of time consciousness, and as found in Merleau- Ponty's habituation to respond to these questions. |
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spelling | pubmed-80226082021-04-15 The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland Ekweariri, Dominic Front Sociol Sociology This study, which analyzes the meaning and experience of womanhood in Igbo land, reveals a power inequality, captured by the depiction of women as the property of men. Though most of the intuitions found in post-structuralism might be confirmed in our analysis (e.g., that discourse produces the subjects and that language operates alongside power and social control), my greatest motivation in this essay is different: it proposes that power inequality as evident in the depictions of women and their oppressive subordinating consequences therein are not consciously intended by all classes of agents while acting in accordance with normal rules and accepted practice; an aspect that is usually lacking in other accounts of the institutionalization of social realities where dominant discourse, collective intentionality etc., are usually emphasized. Whence the questions: What is then the origin of unequal power distribution among the sexes? And what is the origin of unintended but oppressive images and subordinating depictions of women as the property and unequal of men? Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre, I make an elaborate use of passive synthesis as developed by Husserl's analysis of perceptual objects and phenomenological perception of time consciousness, and as found in Merleau- Ponty's habituation to respond to these questions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8022608/ /pubmed/33869417 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00008 Text en Copyright © 2020 Ekweariri. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Ekweariri, Dominic The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland |
title | The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland |
title_full | The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland |
title_fullStr | The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland |
title_full_unstemmed | The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland |
title_short | The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland |
title_sort | passive origin of the institutionalization of power inequality in the meaning/experience of womanhood in igboland |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869417 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00008 |
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