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Abstract The position of most third-world women was complicated increasingly in the twentieth century because of the colonization wave which dominated most third-world countries. Western feminists made serious attempts to help those women from Western perspectives but in vain. Western feminists did not realize that this complicated situation was the production of both patriarchy and colonization. Thus, the purpose of this study is to present postcolonial feminism as a feasible approach for the study of the position of third-world women. This thesis applies postcolonial feminism to examine Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (2007) and Betty Shamieh’s The Black Eyed (2005). It tries to fill the gap between Western and postcolonial feminist claims related to the position of third-world women. In this way, it attempts to reach a better understanding of the suffering of those women in the light of colonization and patriarchy . Keywords: Lynn Nottage, Ruined, Betty Shamieh, The Black Eyed, Third World Women, Western Feminism, Postcolonial Feminism, Colonization, and Patriarchy. |