ABSTRACT
As recent scholars have noted, every society has prevalent ways of structuring, producing, and conceptualizing space that reflect its dominant ideologies and social order. The physical and conceptual division between private/domestic and public spaces, for example, has been integral to maintaining the patriarchal social order. Whereas places outside the home have been used and viewed as basically places for men, domestic space has been regarded as the place where women should be. This spatial dichotomy has justified patriarchal oppression by restricting women’s access to public space and legitimizing the exploitation of women’s labor in private/domestic space.
