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Virility (Al-FuHuula) in the Arab Cultural Awareness: The Book, Al-Mar’a wal Logha [Women and Language], as a Model (in Arabic).
Auther : Ali Asha
This research examines the masculine-feminine controversy in Arab criticism and cultural awareness, through use of the word ‘virility’ (Al- FuHuula). The researcher traces this duality’s transformations from lexical semantics, to ancient critical thought, up to contemporary critical and cultural awareness. The study stems its significance from a number of factors: the high sensitivity of the relationship between masculinity and femininity, the central role of masculinity, and the decline of feminism, despite of its shift from the lexical-physical dimension to aesthetic awareness, i.e., from virility (Al-FuHuula) to the poetics of Al- FuHuula. This research aims to clarify the relationship between linguistic, narrative, critical, social, and cultural aspects, taking into consideration that Al-FuHuula formed a critical-cultural pattern in one of the parts of culture and critical and aesthetic awareness. This paper offers a critical analysis that views language as the host of Being, whose meaning is determined by social and cultural contexts. It also highlights the importance of feminism in the creation of social, cultural, and creative reality, disregarding (i) gender polarization, (ii) psychologism to analyze and think, and (iii) reading from a patriarchal perspective that leads to the weakening of the role of masculinity and femininity together in the world.