Understanding the interaction between patriarchal ideology and gender from the structure/agency relationship

The main objective of this research is to examine, in terms of gender, the theories which emphasize individual?s power of resistance and potential for emancipation under the power relations within the society, and to investigate whether women within those theories preserve the same potential for resistance in the face of patriarchal system.In this research instead of adopting dualisms and segregations a different approach will be used. This approach will bring to the fore the interactions between gender and patriarchal ideology and potential for change and resistance which gender holds in itself. This research adopts an approach which emphasises the changeble structure of power and its interactions in terms of gender. In addition, this research also drive from the idea that the patriarchal ideology does not only dominate and restrain women but also men.Since the research subject and main arguments progress over everyday life, it requires not only a theoretical analysis and discussions but also a practical application field for the research. The fieldwork of this research will be based on the analysis of photographs. In this research it is expected from this analysis of everyday life photographs to bring to light that how the interaction between patriarchal ideology and gender, within the everyday life, re-produced.