<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Pinter’s short dramatic piece questions the women’s rights discourse that USA-led Western hegemonic powers rely heavily upon when justifying their incursions into the territories of the Global South. The play blasts this posture apart by pointing to the patriarchal paradigm and gendered hierarchies that inform the structuration of Western capitalist societies and which neo-imperial Western powers in their search for bigger profits and new markets inevitably transplant into annexed territories under their direct or indirect control.</p></abstract>

Pinter’s short dramatic piece questions the women’s rights discourse that USA-led Western hegemonic powers rely heavily upon when justifying their incursions into the territories of the Global South. The play blasts this posture apart by pointing to the patriarchal paradigm and gendered hierarchies that inform the structuration of Western capitalist societies and which neo-imperial Western powers in their search for bigger profits and new markets inevitably transplant into annexed territories under their direct or indirect control.

The “Woman Question” and Western Neo-Imperialism in Harold Pinter’s the New World Order

University of Ljubljana Aškerčeva 2, SI-100 Ljubljana,

Gender Studies

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Pinter’s short dramatic piece questions the women’s rights discourse that USA-led Western hegemonic powers rely heavily upon when justifying their incursions...

The “Woman Question” and Western Neo-Imperialism in Harold Pinter’s the New World Order

Published Online: Mar 14, 2017

Page range: 196 - 213

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0013

Keywords
neo imperialism, Harold Pinter, postcolonial feminism, women workers, The New World Order, the woman question

© by Lilijana Burcar

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The “Woman Question” and Western Neo-Imperialism in Harold Pinter’s the New World Order

Published Online: Mar 14, 2017

Page range: 196 - 213

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0013

Keywordsneo imperialism, Harold Pinter, postcolonial feminism, women workers, The New World Order, the woman question

© by Lilijana Burcar

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
neo imperialism, Harold Pinter, postcolonial feminism, women workers, The New World Order, the woman question