A Feminist view on Shiva Arastoui's Stories

Feminism is a French word meaning "defending women’s rights" and "women’smovement". Although in its new sense it is a new concept, the word has as long a history as history itself. Feministic criticism is to investigate women’s roles from two perspectives: woman as the creator (author) and women as the created (women as portrayed in literature). The former has been referred to as "criticism at women" and the latter as "women’s portraits". In the present article women’s portrait is examined in three story collections by Shiva Arastuee through feministic approach. The summaries of the stories will be presented and then the stories will be analyses in terms of the aforementioned perspectives. The analyses show the stories are pure reflections of the womanly problems of the author. The themes of the stories include emotional and social issues pertaining to women as opposed to those of men and the society. Virtually, the main concern of the stories is women and their limitations.