Abstract:
The participation of women in the public sphere, especially in the context of work (Arbeit) is not a big issues in modern societiesanymore. However, their reproductive functions as wives and mothers are still used in a capitalistic system to send women back to their domestic sphere. They are materially and symbolically placed in this sphere in order to maintain the masculine domination in the public sphere. This situation can be found in the Novel Mobbing, a novel written by Annette Pehnt that become the material object of the research. Pehnt showed the portrait of a german middle class family who was struggling to survive in a competitive world. The novel shows the women who won the competitions. The writer wanted to show how women were usually marginal in the capitalis society although they were also active in this public sphere. The paper aims to explore how women and Arbeit are shown as important aspects elaborated in german literature.
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