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July 27, 2026Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Male Gaze in Doris Lessing’s “A Woman on a Roof” and Duygu Asena’s Kadının Adı Yok

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ZIZeliha Işık

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The article analyzes the male gaze in literature, revealing its effects on female subjectivity, resistance, and power across cultures.

Key Points

  • The research examines the concept of the male gaze and its impact on female subjectivity in two literary works.
  • Close reading of Doris Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof and Duygu Asena’s Kadının Adı Yok
  • Analysis informed by feminist literary criticism and Lacanian psychoanalysis
  • Identification of structural parallels in the representation of female protagonists in patriarchal societies.
  • Female protagonists in both texts are unnamed and subject to male gaze, highlighting objectification.
  • The male gaze operates as a mechanism of surveillance and domination, affecting women's agency.
  • Acts of resistance are portrayed, showing characters reclaiming agency against societal norms.

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Zeliha Işık (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a67009540bca442e0d4a58bhttps://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1869571
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