A Pathological Analysis of Feminist literature focusing on the Position of The Family in Feminist Theories

Fictional works comprise a field the feminists take advantage of to express women's problems and concerns. Wherever there is a trace of women, feminism has challenged and cast doubt on many norms, traditions, and the dos and don'ts. Expressing women problems, some woman-oriented fictional works have also had negative effects; for these works view family, marriage, and marital relationships from an anti-value point. This is while the value of family as a small but much influential institute in providing mental health and peace for the family members and meeting their emotional needs has been ignored. The present paper tries to offer a critical analysis of family damages through studying a few feminist fictional works, using the pathological approach and the comparative study method. These fictional works include The Dog and the Long Winter by Shahrnoush Parsipur, My Bird by Fariba Vafi, and the short stories The Stains, The Apartment 1, 2, 3 from the collection The Acrid Taste of Persimmon by Zoya Pirzad. The stories are selected with regard to their woman-oriented nature, their female authors, their connection with family concerns, and their female protagonists. The findings show that through foregrounding emotional divorce, opposing viewpoints in marital relationship, women's loss of identity, and official divorce, and focusing on patriarchy and misandry, these fictional works have had negative effects on the value of marriage and family as an institute.