The lion and the jewel novel

The Inferior Sex: A Third World Feminist Approach to Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

Mustafa KARA

Feminism, as a social and political phenomenon, has been controversial in all terms, for there are various types of it and each type is associated with a certain group of people, culture, or society.

While the first wave and second wave feminism types are totally Eurocentric and are concerned with the emancipation of the white middle class women in Europe and in the USA, the third wave feminism has based its arguments on the emancipation of the women in the Third World countries since they are abused twice as much as those in the First World countries by the political and patriarchal system, which, apparently, is an unstraightforward definition of double colonization.

It would not be right to underestimate the discrimination which women are exposed to in the First World countries, because they are also ill-treated by the system thr