Woman Struggle in “Woman at Point Zero” Novel By Nawal El Saadawi: Radical and Liberal Feminism Perspective

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10.2991/978-2-38476-251-4_33How to use a DOI?

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Woman Struggle; Novel; Radical Feminism; Liberal Feminism

Abstract

This research aimed at finding out the feminism movement in novel by using descriptive method through feminism criticism which focus on depicting woman in a literary work based on liberal and radical feminism. The results of this research that feminism is women struggle that manifested in movement to refuse the marginalization, subordinate, and oppression by dominant culture in sector of politic, economy, and generally in social live. The causes of main character (Firdaus)’s oppression in “Woman at Point Zero” novel according to radical feminist perspective, is patriarchy system neither happen in the family nor in education sector, also the feminism movement is still influenced by cultural assumption that woman is still less intelligent, less moral, and withdraw into home, gentility and inferior being. Woman is urged to get married or just to be a house wife. On the other hand, Liberal feminism argue that Firdaus not only a victim of patriarchy system, but also injustice victim in accessing education, social, politic and economy system. So that, liberating women from oppression, feminists try to implements their thoughts and acts, because liberal feminism believes that women have the same mental capacity as their male counterparts and should be given the same opportunities in political, economic, and social spheres. Firdaus as main character obtain her freedom by achieving high status economically even though in prostitution world.

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AU  - Irmayani Irmayani
AU  - Fathu Rahman
AU  - M. P. Amir
AU  - Herawaty Abbas
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/05/22
TI  - Woman Struggle in “Woman at Point Zero” Novel By Nawal El Saadawi: Radical and Liberal Feminism Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Linguistics and Culture (ICLC-4 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 229
EP  - 235
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-251-4_33
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-251-4_33
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