How To Teach Feminism as an Arab-American Woman: Rum’s A Woman isNo Man (۲۰۱۹)

The present study is a feminist reading that concentrates on the fictional novel A Woman is No Man (۲۰۱۹) by theArab-American novelist Etaf Rum. With the consideration of women’s marginalization as the “second sex” proposedby Simone De Beauvoir, the current study aims to emphasize how the society restricts women with boundaries likehonor and tradition. Rum depicts a society where religion is a cover for men’s claims for ownership. The novelist’sbiography, her social and political background including the Arab diaspora that influenced her writing are surveyed.Since Rum is oppressed and suffered from the restrictions of her patriarchal society that threatened revolutionarywomen, she portrayed oppression against diaspora women who live in America. It is concluded that patriarchy is notrelated to any geographical location. Whether Arab-American women reside in the Arab countries or diaspora, stillthey are oppressed. Even in the land of freedom, they are controlled by the traditions of their homeland and are underthe dominance of patriarchy which forces them to obey the rules written by men and for men and dictated to women

کلیدواژه ها:

Rum’s A Woman is No Man ، Arab diaspora ، Oppression ، Other ، Patriarchy