الفهرس 
Theoretical and historical background Of female oppressionOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Through selected novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850), Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1852), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward’s The Gates Ajar(1869) and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale(1985), the present dissertation provides a critical analysis of the patriarchal oppression of women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also analyzes the complex connection between patriarchy and capitalism by manipulating female oppression to satisfy their need for capital accumulation. This is seen in accordance with religion, labor and class sexual division. It unveils the tactics, philosophies, and prejudices that patriarchy applies to women as well as to other oppressed groups such as slaves and the working classes within order to manipulate for themselves power, supremacy, and wealth. This dissertation incorporates the philosophies of Marxist feminism and ecofeminism. Marxist feminism seeks to explore the hierarchy and capitalism’s plot interplay. It makes use of the philosophies of classical Marxists and radical feminism. Ecofeminism was also used to illustrate the holistic vision of interdependence, collaboration, and interrelationships between men and women among the four feminist writers.