Reanalysis Of the Literary Works of Sarah Grand, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, And Yasar Nezihe from A Feminist Orientalist Perspective

We examine women's rights and freedoms using a comprehensive framework that includes all races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic categories, and is based on a systematic, conceptual, and theoretical approach. However, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was difficult to speak of a so well-established and comprehensive feminist movement. Furthermore, apart from many quantitative constraints such as restricted movement and the necessity for dependable and unbiased dissemination of knowledge across diverse nations, social strata, ethnicities, and genders, the orientalist viewpoint of the Western world has influenced the quality of feminist literature. Some major Western studies on women have portrayed Turkish women in a negative light, suggesting that they are oblivious to feminist principles. However, upon retrospective examination of British, American, and Turkish literary works created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it becomes evident that each society has exhibited analogous quests for woman’s rights and freedoms. The purpose of this article is to show collectivity of women's experiences regardless of race, socioeconomic class, or ethnicity, and to demonstrate that women's experiences, which are obscured by male-dominated discourse and orientalist perspectives, are similar in areas such as education, work right, representaation and violence, spanning from the past to the present. Accordingly, this article provides a comparative examination of three feminist literary works, "When the Door Opened_” (1908) by Sarah Grand, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “For May 1” (1923) by Yasar Nezihe Bukulmez.