Subversion of Conventional Gender Roles in Naomi Alderman's The Power

Abstract

This research examines the issue of subversion ofconventionalgender roles through main characters likeRoxy, Allie, Margot and Tunde inNaomi Alderman'sThe Power(2017). Women appear asmothers, winners, owners, protectors, and recipients. Men areportrayed assons, slaves,victims, loser,and sacrifice. In a sense, Alderman reverses the traditional concept ofpower politics,culture, sexual role,history,and literature in the identity of women.Both men and women in power always tryto create their ownsocialdiscourse, knowledge, identity,history, literature and nation. It relates to human nature and human psychology.In the matriarchal world, men are not permitted to vote, to drive a car, to move own business and to gather together. It depictsthe reversal of sexual roles, matriarchal design of power politics, Goddess inthe West, women in war, women as protectors and patrons. So,the researcher applies the theoretical approach of Gender Studies with the ideas of theorists likeJudith Butler, Judith Halberstam, David Glover and Cora Kaplanto analyze the novel. It shows the discontinuities of gender roles and human desires for identity in society. Human constructs social, political, cultural and economic power to get own supremacy. Key Words:Matriarchal World, Electrostatic Power,Glitters, Mother Eve, War