Male Hegemony in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
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Persuasion examines how Jane Austen is guided by the ideology of male hegemony.
Her female characters, in one or the other way, manage to live under the umbrella of
patriarchy without the resisting power. They never realize their confinement and
humiliation in a male oriented society. They are attached to the traditional patriarchal
stereotypes and internalize their submissiveness as patriarchal society demands them.
Their absence in public affairs and property right,and their confinement within the
narrow boundary of domesticity reflects Austen’s internalization of male oriented
ideology.