Narrative and gender as mutually constituted meaning-making systems

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Abstract Both gender and narrative are foundational to the ways in which humans engage meaning-making. Arguing from evolutionary, psychological feminist theoretical perspectives, we posit that narratives culturally mediated mutually constituted meaning-making systems: Narratives defined through is narrative. To contextualise this argument, define ‘narrative’ ‘gender’ review extant literature on how expressed master performed differently by women men. Our core argument very act of narrating a gendered activity constructs, represents narrates as primary category human existence, these fundamentally then construct, reify being world.

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عنوان ژورنال: Memory, mind & media

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2635-0238']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2021.4