چكيده
The Power was a 2016 science fiction novel by British writer Naomi Alderman. Its basic principle is that women develop the ability to release electric shocks from their fingers, causing them to become the dominant gender. In this study, the researcher tried to find the concepts of gender and power in this novel and analyze them. The Power describes how gender relations would be affected, how society would evolve if women developed the ability to deliver electric shocks. This premise is fantastic, but a scientific-fictional justification is given by placing a zone of muscle on the clavicle, called skein, as the center of power and the origin of the mutation of a chemical agent of the Second World War (Guardian angel). that protects against gas attacks, which have inevitably leaked into the environment. The Power of Naomi Alderman is a remarkably popular novel and laureate of the Baileys Prize for Female Fiction. Many critics and readers see the 2016 response to Margaret Atwoodʹs The Handmaidʹs Tale (1985) and a fourth-wave dystopian novel. This speculative fiction explores the form of power in patriarchy by using a singular principle according to which the women of the planet obtain as an evolutionary accident a new organ in the clavicle - the skein - producing electric shocks. Obtaining this power allows women to challenge the power dynamics of patriarchy.
