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Walker's Depiction Of Women And Patriarchy

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The depiction of Marilene, the woman in the freak show signifies the emblems of the circumcised and scarcely prescribed position of women in America. Through her commoditification, Walker brings into sharp focus the ironic yet clear eco-feminist implications. The wacky display of the brine preserved body into a freak show by her husband and his turning her into a beneficial commodity highlight how women, both dead and alive have become the perfect, scared and commoditized property under patriarchy. Even the epithets on the van carrying the dead body speak of how women were degraded and subjected to various oppressions. Referred to sarcastically as dutiful daughter, devoted wife, loving mother, she offers us with the patriarchal postulate of

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