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gender and
genre Part 2Sanata Dharma University
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man’s book is a book. Aoman’s book is aoman’s book.
Christiane Rochefort,981: 183)
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-historica as we asa forma entit!.transformations in
"enre m#st beconsi$ere$ inreation to sociachan"es (%o$oro&,
198':8)
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(In) the gender inscriptions
in the mass culture debate… woman is positioned as areader of inferior literature sub!ective" emotional andpassive while man …emerges as a writer ofgenuine" authentic literature
ob!ective" ironic" and incontrol of his aestheticmeans (#uyssen" $%&'')*
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a$ she been born in 18*+, oroth! sbornewo#$ ha&e written no&es ha$ she beenborn in 1/*+, she wo#$ ne&er ha&e written
at a. 0#t she was born in 1*+, an$ at that$ate tho#"h writin" books was ri$ic#o#s fora woman there was nothin" #nseemin"! inwritin" a etter. An$ so b! $e"rees thesience is broken 2 (ir"inia 4oof)
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+,e have to -now where womenare" why women have to writethe novel" the story of their own
domesticity" the story of theirown seclusion within the homeand the possibilities and
impossibilities provided by that.(/itchell" $%& 2&%)
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+0he birth of the novel". as1obert uchanan noted in $&'2"
+has given speech to many ladieswho must otherwise have beensilent. ($34)
#owever" what women could sayin 5ction" and how their voiceswere li-ely to be heard" were
constrained by both theprevailing discourses on woman"and a gendered discourse on
5ction*
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6atin had become a male" public language" whiche7isted only within the academic institutions* ,omencould only learn vernaculars and for centuries were
denied access to the world of formal" publiccommunication (including literature)* 8s 9ng notes"until the nineteenth century learning 6atin meantentrance into the male educated elite* 6atin hadbecome a +se7:lin-ed language" a -ind of badge of
masculine identity (;ameron" $%%
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femae e$#cation was &ernac#are$#cation, an$ the iterar! "enreswhich came to be associate$ with
women (the no&e in 5artic#ar)were those which "rew o#t of5ri&ate &ernac#ar writin"(etters6$iaries) an$ $rew itte ornothin" from cassica mo$es.