Feminism
The term feminism can hardly be defined with one definition. On the contrary, the term is rather problematic as novelists would not per se characterize their literature with it. Oftentimes the term seen as Western imported and associated with the colonial project. The term feminism might ring differently depending on the cultural background of the writer and reader.
Nevertheless, the term can be useful to refer to writing which emphasises gender injustice, which will be the focus of this category. This includes stories of oppression of women under a patriarchal authority (see also S: Social Issues and Societal Change: Patriarchism), redefining gender roles (see also S: Social Issues and Societal Change: Women and Issues of Gender), the struggle to receive education and work, and female emancipation in relation to the national struggle.
This does not exclude, obviously, that the literature mentioned here can and should also be placed under other themes too. For one needs to be careful not to interpret these ‘feminist writings’ in such a way as to typify them as expressions of negative stereotypes about the Arab world when it comes to gender injustice.