expressed through a narrative and the characters or groups who are ridiculed not by what is said about them but by what they themselves say and do. Most great
literary satire uses the second type of satire 1986: 447-448.
3. Theory of Feminism
Dalla Costa’s statement which was quoted in Davis’ Women, Race and Class
supports the housewives’ strike to get their freedom from the home and their husbands’ oppression, as what feminists struggle for.
We must reject the home, because we want to unite with other women, to struggle against all situations which presume that women will stay
home…To abandon the home is already a form of struggle, since the social services we perform there would then cease to be carried out in
those conditions 1983: 240.
Women’s writing and feminism have always been closely related because ‘women’s writing’ is a critical category - a product of discourse about the texts
women have written - and not the intention of the writers themselves. Women’s writing is a critical, not an authorial, category. There are some exceptions in the
late twentieth century, but it is safe to say that not all female writers are feminist and this is especially true of pre-nineteenth century writers. Feminist theory
therefore defines the object of study, which is women’s writing, but the relationship between the two goes deeper than this. Many texts by women express
the same concerns as feminist theory: the unique experience of women in history, the notion of female consciousness, the definitions of gender that limit and
oppress, and the cause of women’s liberation from those restrictions Madsen, 2000: ix.
Feminism appears since women are being assumed as a lower class than men. Politics, social, and economics are some areas where women have been
defined as inferior to men. Those facts make the feminists seek equal rights for women and to give them equal status to men. They want equal opportunities to
compete with men. Feminism, according to Humm in The Dictionary of Feminist Theory
