Abstract:
The purpose of this qualitative study is to reflect on how female graduate students with migraine were oppressed under the pressure of burden which came with the expectation of their family and to find the influences of patriarchal capitalism stress on the female that cause migraine. This study was conducted in Mahidol University Salaya campus through in-depth interviews with 8 female graduate students with migraine, who were working while studying and aged between 25-55 years. Collected data were analysed using Content Analysis. The results showed that; 1) Female graduate students with migraine have become like slaves. First, they are like slaves who have been tortured by physical pain and social illness and unable to work properly. Second, they are like slaves who are inescapable because people who has migraine are hopeless from seeking ineffective cure and stress triggers which come from inevitable social. Lastly, they are like slaves who have no authority, for they have no chance to know the clear cause of migraine from physician and have no power to absolutely eliminate those triggers. 2) Thai Society of Patriarchal Capitalism has many characters. First, Patriarchal Capitalism enslaves female under the authority of employer and men. Second, Patriarchal Capitalism is the embodiment of inescapable slavery in which family forms character of inescapable slavery for female, including becoming a perfectionist, being capable of taking care of herself and ambitious. Finally, Patriarchal Capitalism makes female students unauthorized slaves since they are living under the expectation of their family with the duty of being daughter, duty of education, and duty of paid work. To live with these expectation is to be an unauthorized slave. 3) Patriarchal Capitalism dominates female students to be tortured slaves since the burden, which they have to carry through ideal of being daughter, student and worker, causes them to feel stressed and suffer from migraine like slaves who go through never ending suffering. The suggestions for the study were that; society must be aware of the humanness of women and the value of every occupation in new ways, and must lend the helping-hand with burden of work on the basis of love. The society must lighten the burden on each other appropriately and deconstruct the ideologies which tend to produce inequity in women's lives. Women's oppression should be eliminated or at least reduced.