A Comparative Analysis of Feminist

Approach Presented in “A Woman is

No Man” and “Slum Child”

Bushra Saeed
M.Phil- 1st
Literature
CHAPTER# 1

INTRODUCTION

A Woman Is
Slum Child No Man
Feminist Feminist Feminist
Feminism Bina Shah
Movement Theory Criticism Etaf Rum
(2010)
(2019)
SIGNIFICANCE AND RATIONALE OF THE STUDY

COMPARISON
FEMINIST
OF TWO
MOVEMENT
NOVELS
KEY TERMS

LIBERAL
FEMINISM PATRIARCHY
FEMINISM

GYNOCRITICISM
 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

To explore the style of portraying a main female character in Slum Chlid

by an eastern female writer.

To explore the struggle of women in a patriarchal society with special

reference of Etaf Rum’s novel A Woman Is No Man.

To study the comparative aspects of both the writer in their writings under
the lens of liberal feminism.
 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. How does Bina Shah portray female protagonist in Slum Child?

2. How does Etaf Rum portray the struggle of women in a

patriarchal society in A Woman is No Man?

3. What are the comparative aspects in the writings of Eastern and

Western female writers from the perspective of liberal feminism?
DELIMITATION

Time constraints Lack of previous research

studies on the topic
CHAPTER# 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

Feminism • Discussion

• Michele Barrett
Critics •
•
Simone de Beauvoir
Virginia Woolf

Feminism First wave

•
• Second wave
• Third wave
waves • Fourth wave
19TH AND EARLY- 20TH CENTURIES

FIRST WAVE

Women’s
Legislation suffrage

Emmeline Liberation of
Pankhurst women
MID 20TH CENTURY

SECOND WAVE

Simone de Beauvoir State Feminism

Betty Friedan
LATE 20TH AND EARLY 21ST CENTURIES

THIRD WAVE

Rebecca Walker Stand point theory

FOURTH WAVE FEMINISM

Prudence Chamberlain Post Feminism

Elaine Showalter
Three Phases
1. Feminist Critique
2. Gynocriticism
3. Gender Theory
Kinds of feminism

Liberal feminism Radical feminism Black feminism

Marxist and socialist feminism Cultural feminism Eco feminism

Transactional or Global feminism Visionary feminism

 PREVIOUS WORKS

Salem (2010)

Joseph (2012)

Wulandari, Mega Dwi; Supiastutik; Hat Pujiati. (2019)

CHAPTER# 3

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH

METHODOLOGY

Liberal Qualitativ
feminism e research

Close Primary and

reading secondary
data
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Shah, Bina. Slum Child. TRANQUEBAR, 2010.

Rum, Etaf. A Woman Is No Man. HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

Tyson, Lois. Critical theory today: A user-friendly guide. 2nd ed., New York: Routledge.2014 .

Friedan, Betty.The Feminine Mystique. W.W Norton & Company, INC.1963.

Abbey, Ruth. Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls. Penn State University Press, 2013 .