It is evident that the second half of the 20th century witnessed a revolution in women’s studies, which cite women as the core subject of their focus, starting from Simone de Beauvoir until the present. Therefore, El Saadawi's novel represents Arab feminism that is greatly influenced by Western feminism. Yet, the presented practices are cultural ones. Hence, calling El Saadawi an Islamic feminist misguides her audience, especially international readers to believe that every single practice in the novel is relevant to Islamic feminism and Islam. Rather, it unconsciously bolsters Western stereotypes about Muslim women who are regarded as oppressed by both men and Islam. Consequently, El Saadawi's novel is not an Islamic feminist work. Albeit El Saadawi is called an Islamic feminist, the analysis of her novel from an Islamic feminist perspective shows non-Islamic feminist practices in terms of disdaining daughters, female circumcision, molestation, preventing women from education, forced marriages, beating wives and prostitution. It investigates whether the novel shows features of Islamic feminism or another version of Western feminism. The article analyses Nawal El Saadawi's Islamic feminism in Woman at Point Zero. It concludes that there is a compelling need for contemporary female African novelists to give a fair representation of men in their novels. The study demonstrates that Nawal El Sadaawi, like other reviewed African female novelists, gives an exaggerated negative and unfair representation of men in Woman at Point Zero. The radical feminist theory provides the theoretical framework. With a particular reference to Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero, it examines how several female African novelists have demonised men in their novels. However, not much study has been done on how the feminist-oriented female African novelists have deliberately demonised and bestialised the male characters in their novels in order to get even with the male novelists.

In response to the proclivity of male African novelists to relegate women to the background in their novels, many female African novelists have exposed the phallic nature of the African society in their novels.

Studies abound on the phallic nature of African literature.

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