Oppression of Women in Nadia Murad’s Memoir The Last Girl

Sruthy Prakash

Vol-7,Issue-3,May - June 2022

Author: Sruthy Prakash

Keywords: Feminism, Objectification, Patriarchy, Rape.

Abstract: The project is entitled Oppression of women in Nadia Murad’s memoir The Last Girl. The work is published in November 2017. In the book, she describes how she was captured and enslaved by Islamic state militants during the Second Iraqi civil war. The project tries to analyze the oppression of Iraqi women, especially Yazidi women in the backdrop of terrorism with feminist theory. The analysis is undertaken in three chapters. The first session is a brief introduction into the work, the author and the situation of Yazidi women portrayed in the work. The second session gives an overview of feminism and to give the indicators of women’s oppression, discrimination and sexual objectification in the work to prove that oppression of women still persists. And the third session is the conclusion.

Article Info: Received: 06 May 2022; Received in revised form: 01 Jun 2022; Accepted: 06 Jun 2022; Available online: 12 Jun 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.73.22