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Abstract
This article analyzes the 2017 film, My Happy Family, and how it depicts the archetypical Georgian woman and the sacrifices she is required to make for the family and, by extension, the nation. In doing so, I explore the socio-historical construction of the ideal woman and the ways women resist gendered demands, often through unseen means. Scholars have explored the cultural politics of “postsocialism,” analyzing the “New Woman” archetype in relation to class, sexuality, and labor. Finding that many neglect issues of women’s own socio-psychic negotiation of the postsocialist terrain, I argue that we must investigate more closely the production of the sacrificial/sacred female subject in terms of “inner martyrdom.” By focusing on female martyrdom in Georgia, I shed insight into women in a postsocialist context.
Recommended Citation
Gasviani, Gvantsa. 2022. "Inner Martyrdom: Deconstructing the Sacrificial Female Subject in Post-Soviet Georgia." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 20 (Spring): 19-32. 10.23860/jfs.2022.20.02.
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