Feminism in Zahida Hina's Short Stories
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1234/re.v9.i1.14Keywords:
Zahid Hina, Encyclopedia Britannica, Feminist literature, political, economic, social, French Revolution, 18th century, Edmund Burke, judiciary, parliament, media, army, materialism.Abstract
Feminist literature refers to the literature in which the political, economic, social and other rights of women have been expressed. Feminist literature first began in the West with the advent of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. In the 18th century, women were given the right to vote. In 1790, Edmund Burke wrote a book called A Vindication of the Right of Men. In response to which Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Right of Women in 1792. After that, in the same context, Virginia Woolf wrote A room of one's own and Simone de Beauvoir wrote The second sea. In the East, this movement gained popularity in the twentieth century.
Feminist literature is an effective weapon against women's slavery, local and religious customs, sexual discrimination, social oppression and economic inequality. Women were often used as gifts, concubines, concubines, slaves, or collaterals, but female literature enabled women to work alongside men in the judiciary, parliament, media, army, and other fields. There are four waves of materialism
