Identity: Beauty, Birth, and Body in Enigma Represented by Some Modern Arab Female Writers

Anggraini, Indrani Dewi (2019) Identity: Beauty, Birth, and Body in Enigma Represented by Some Modern Arab Female Writers. In: PROCEEDINGS Adab-International Conference on Information and Cultural Sciences “Cultural Literacy and Islam in the Post-Truth Society”. prosiding (-). UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA, Yogyakarta, pp. 100-104. ISBN 2715-0550

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Abstract

The nature of being women is based on biological functions, including reproduction, therefore, they are expected and framed by the tradition and society with emphasis on beauty, and a body related with the function in child birth. These social and cultural constructed are due to the male domination standards, hence, women tend to lose individual freedom. However, there is some critical resistance towards this misplacement, although some are trapped, while others rebel towards the social and cultural standards that dictate identity. The purpose of this paper is the paradox of beauty, birth and body in relation with Arab women and qualitative research, through content analysis was applied in evaluation. This was based on the Naomi’s theory, synthesized with Stuart Hall’s though of identity. The five short stories written by the modern Arab woman were explored to disclose feeling, though, and experiences on the paradox issues and the result indicates the disorientation, dispossession, displacement, and opposition encountered. Keywords: Arab Women Writers, Beauty, Birth, Body, and Identity.

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