Open AccessCULTURAL CAPITAL AND IRANIAN WOMEN’S SUBMISSIVENESS: PIERRE BOURDIEU’S THEORY OF PRACTICE
Author(s) -
Marzieh Kouchak,
Hassan Shahabi,
Shahram R. Sistani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.35.2021.1
Subject(s) - gender studies , sociology , subordination (linguistics) , power (physics) , habitus , capital (architecture) , cultural capital , institutionalisation , practice theory , social science , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , history
Men’s domination and women’s submissiveness are the principles of patriarchal societies. In Iran’s patriarchal society, Iranian women also submit to men’s power in various fields. This article examines Fariba Vafi’s My Bird and Zoya Pirzad’s Things We Left Unsaid to scrutinize the interrelations between different forms of cultural capital and Iranian women’s subordination in the fields of vocation and marriage. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of practice, the findings of this paper show that Iranian men cause Iranian women to be obedient in the fields of vocation and marriage with the help of institutionalization and habituation of various forms of cultural capital in Iranian women. This articlealso demonstrates that Iranian women have to eventually submit to the patriarchal culture of Iran despite their access to self-awareness and effort to resist.