Document Type : Original Article
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PH. D student of sociology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan,, Rasht, Iran
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Assistant professor, Department of Social Sciences, faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
10.22034/scart.2024.139554.1343
Abstract
Proverbs, as part of the oral tradition of popular culture and deposits of culture, indicate many social realities, including women, which are represented. The current research seeks to achieve the intellectual structure and ideology governing these proverbs through the method of deconstruction. Out of about 50,000 proverbs in Dehkhoda's Amsaal-o-Hekam, about 100 proverbs are selected as the statistical population, of which 20 proverbs are dedicated to women and are the samples of the present study. The analysis of deconstruction is done with David Boje’s eight-step method, which includes: searching for dichotomous oppositions, reinterpreting hierarchies, protesting voices, the other side of the account, the negation of plot, finding exceptions, reading between the lines, and rearranging. The findings show that in all the proverbs, the dichotomous opposition of woman/man is a fixed opposition and in all of them, men are superior and women are inferior. The absent voice of the text is the voice of women and the dominant plot is tragedy. The other side of the account is the presence of violating traces of the dominant narrative within the text, which gives subordinate women the possibility of silent resistance against the ruling rule of patriarchy. As a result, reaccounting the dominant patriarchal account through the overturning of the dichotomous hierarchy ruling the text causes a change in plot to comedy so that women find a different place in the reaccouting.
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