Female Self-Creation and Re-Defining Self in Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love: A Feminist Study

This paper endeavours to give a feminist analysis of Gilbert's novel Eat, Pray, Love (2006), which is based on the issue of women's identity.Thus, the selected novel first explains the crisis of identity and the factors that make women feel ambivalent about their own real identity.That is why the study benefited from feminist psychoanalysis and captured it as an approach for analysing the texts along with Marxist feminism.It focuses on the sufferings of women in their remorseful lives, in which they live under the atrocity of patriarchy.It aims to illustrate the obstacles preventing women from discovering their identities.The selected novel proposes and argues that the bitterness through which women pass frequently in their lives implanted misandry and resentment of being inside them, and the upshot is that they lost their identity.Besides, it affects them psychologically.The presented study entitled "Female Self-Creation and Re-Defining Self in Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love: A Feminist Study" studies the themes of the rebirth of women after they had dismantled and melted under the hegemony and the suppression of patriarchal ideology.Hence, the problem of the study is the retrieval of a unique identity for women.