Doris Lessing's our friend Judith : a reading in feminist discourse

Abstract EN

The study of feminism and feminist discourse falls in with ideology research.

Ideological apparatuses whether social, political, psychological and linguistic represent the frameworks where feminist analysis is carried out.

In the preset study, an ideology model devised by Barbara John-Stone is applied to investigate, analyze and interpret Doris Lessing’s Our Friend Judith in an attempt to uncover the feminist ideologies that operate in the text.

The analysis proves that the story is loaded with feminist references and cues that are designed by the author to penetrate and comment on women’s status in the 60s, and by extension and analogy, the upcoming generations of women.