Bedouin woman challenges patriarchal oppression in Miral al Tahawi’s the Gazelle tracks

Abstract EN

Bedouin women suffer from strict restrictions imposed by traditional customs in Bedouin society, where men are the main focus of the family and society.

This privilege granted by society to men makes them responsible for making decisions and controlling the fate of their family members, especially women who are considered ineligible for decisions that affect their lives, or less than men.

In this research, the problem of Bedouin women will be highlighted as a victim of strict Bedouin patriarchal values through the study and analysis of Hind's character in Miral Al-Tahawi's novel The Gazelle Tracks.

The study adopts the radical Feminism theory, which believes that the basis for the oppression of women is the patriarchal system, will enable the reader to understand the influence of patriarchy on the female characters as the “other” or less valuable than men in the patriarchal system.

The study leads to the conclusion that women may resort to the cruelest methods of "death" as a challenge to parental norms that violate their rights.