Open AccessNever on Sunday: Feminist questioning of dominant epistemology and philosophical tradition
Author(s) -
Lada Stevanović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei2101173s
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , chauvinism , hegemony , sociology , embodied cognition , subject (documents) , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , colonialism , feminism , orientalism , aesthetics , gender studies , history , philosophy , literature , art , law , politics , political science , archaeology , visual arts , library science , computer science , linguistics
Through the interpretation of the movie Never on Sunday (1960) by Jules Dassin, this paper opens some important epistemological questions from the feminist perspective. Namely, the film is set in the contemporary Greece, while the main characters are a prostitute Ilia and an American tourist Homer, who is at the same time disappointed in Greece and in the beautiful woman he meets. His inability to understand people and social context in which he finds himself, as well as his effort to educate Ilia and impose her his own values and ideas about ancient Greece reveal much of chauvinism and cultural colonialism, opening questions crucial for feminist and other critical epistemologies which are: who produces knowledge, for whom and how to approach it critically. Finally, through the interpretation of Ilia?s attitude to knowledge, I will turn also to the feminist notion of embodied feminist subject. Apart from that, I will deal with hegemonic attitude of the West towards ancient Greek past.