A Study of the Sexual Crises of Women in Naguib Mahfuz's Works

Subject Areas : Contemporary Literature Studies

Hussein Shamsabadi ¹ , Gholamreza golcheenrad ² , fereshteh afzali ³

1 - عضو هیئة التدریس بجامعة الحکیم السبزواری(أستاذ مشارک).
2 - عضو هیئة التدریس بجامعة گرگان(أستاذ مساعد
3 - طالبة الدکتوراه بجامعة الحکیم السبزواری.

Received: 2014-03-23 Accepted : 2014-03-23 Published : 2012-09-01

Keywords: الأدب, literature, القصة, story, المرأة, نجیب محفوظ, الأزمة النسویة, الاجتماعیة, السیکولوجیة, الفلسفیة, Naguib Mahfuz, female, crisis: socially, philosophically, and psychologically,

Abstract :

Literature plays various roles, the major function being expressing reality through the forms of the novel and the short story. Naguib Mahfuz, one of the outstanding Arab novelists, has special talents in this respect. He expresses social problems critically. The sexual crisis is one of the plights which is both discussed and challenged in his novels and short stories. He investigated sexual crises, especially among women, socially, philosophically, and psychologically, and considered that problem as political symbolism and not as his main theme.