Comodification of Women in Paulo Coelho'sEleven Minutes
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Abstract
Paulo Coelho, in Eleven Minutes (2003), presents the protagonist's
involvement of sex industriesas theresultof capitalist society. The protagonist of the
novel reaches Geneva where she endures various pain, suffering and oppression
caused by the patriarchal ideology, and compels to work in a brothel.Most of the
male characters of the noveltreat Maria as an object to fulfill their sexual desire.The
profit oriented business under capitalism buys and sells the women as commodity.
When the male character consumes Maria to their sexual desire, it is worth to study
form Marxist perspectives. Marxist feministthinksthatthe comodificationof woman
is the result of capitalism.When the women exchange their sexuality with money, the
women become a commodity of men's sexual desire.Poverty,capitalist tendency of
consumer culture,gender discrimination, and patriarchal society are the rootcause
of the comodification of women.