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The Discourse of Gender and Power in Naomi Alderman’s The Power

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  • Mojgan Abshavi

    (Department of English, Payame Noor University, POBox: 193595-3697, Tehran, Iran)

  • Zaman Kargozari

    (Department of English, Payame Noor University, POBox: 193595-3697, Tehran, Iran)

Abstract

The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by British writer Naomi Alderman. Its basic principle is that women develop the ability to release electric shocks from their fingers, causing them to become the dominant gender. This study tried to find the concepts of gender and power in this novel and analyze them. The Power describes how gender relations would be affected, how society would evolve if women developed the ability to deliver electric shocks. This speculative fiction explores the form of power in patriarchy by using a singular principle according to which the women of the planet obtain as an evolutionary accident a new organ in the clavicle - the skein - producing electric shocks. Obtaining this power allows women to challenge the power dynamics of patriarchy.

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  • Mojgan Abshavi & Zaman Kargozari, 2020. "The Discourse of Gender and Power in Naomi Alderman’s The Power," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, vol. 6(9), pages 818-825, 09-2020.
    • Handle: RePEc:arp:tjssrr:2020:p:818-825
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