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- Title
RESISTANCE TO SEXIST MEDICAL COMMUNITY WITH SEMIOTIC LANGUAGE IN AUGUSTINE (BIG HYSTERIA).
- Authors
GÜNDOGĞU, Burcu
- Abstract
Set in the late nineteenth-century, Anna Furse's play, Augustine (Big Hysteria) rewrites the real life woman, Augustine's story, who was accused of madness, to demonstrate how the phallocentric medical community promotes gender-based treatment. In the play, the cast included neurologist Professor and governor of the Salpêtrière hospital, Jean- Martin Charcot and psychologist aspiring student Sigmund Freud exhibits intriguing case of Augustine to the all-male audience under the disguise of medical wisdom and discovery. Through her hysteric performance to all-male spectators, who are intentionally put into the role of voyeur, Augustine not only succeeds in acting out her rape scene and makes a critique of male-dominated society. In Furse's feminist revision, Furse also deals with how Augustine's semiotic language creates an alternative to the male -oriented language. Augustine's final critical response to the male-dominated society is achieved through her escape in male attire. This paper investigates how the mental hospital under the control of misogynist Charcot and male-oriented language system converts Augustine into a voiceless sexual object.
- Subjects
SEMIOTICS; SEMANTICS; DECONSTRUCTION; SEXISM; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute / Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2015, Issue 20, p1
- ISSN
1308-2922
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/pausbed.2015.07769