Furthermore, women’s self-definition helps them to gather their self-worth to counter the oppression. While men have the privilege of being free, women are burden with the family’s reputation and domestic duties that turn them into a docile individual. Portrayed by the three generations of Arab-American female characters, the result of this study finds women are experiencing oppressions managed within the four domains of power: structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal domain of power. Deploying Patricia Hill Collins' theory of Matrix of Domination and Self-Definition, this study applied a descriptive-analytical method in analyzing how women experience oppression and their actions in resisting it. This study investigates women's oppression and their resistance in the novel A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum. Therefore, women resist the oppression by speaking up for their rights to own one’s life. Women have been oppressed through the domination of patriarchy that controls their lives.
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