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    A feminist analysis of Margaret Atwood’s the edible woman
    (UMT, Lahore, 2021) Muhammad Kamran Noor
    The Edible Woman is a novel by Canadian author, Margaret Atwood which was not much known when it was published but has become a feminist iconic novel ever since the movement of feminism has been at a rise. The paper is a study of the feminist critical examination of the novel under the theoretical framework of Othering. The character in the novel, mainly the protagonist is stuck in a world where women are consumed all their lives by both the society and by the men in it. The protagonist, Marian, tries to stand up to these patriarchal notions and to such people that put women down. This paper will focus on the study of the novel with different feminist perspectives and try to undermine the reasons why Marian starts to drown in a sea of depression, Anorexia, feeling split up. The psychological perspectives of being a woman in a deeply patriarchal society shall also be studied. Mainly, feminist theories like “the second sex” by Simone De Beauvoir and “a room of one’s own” by Virginia Woolf and other texts will be used to theoretically analyze the novel. The novel will also be discussed with reference to gender stereotypes and the gender gap that the society faces in a patriarchal and capitalist world. Also, another important element in this novel is that of food and its importance to the plot of the novel, such elements will also be discovered in this paper.