Showhar-e Ahou Khanom at the crossroads of Post Structuralist criticism

The core theme of Showhar-e Ahou Khanom is the woman and her place in a society in transition. At first look, it seems that this novel intends to rehabilitate the lost place of Iranian women and vindicate their violated rights by the Masculism discourses. The critics believe that this novel in its turn is a kind of Requiem for Iranian women and the first attempt of Iranian feminist movement in Persian literature. Adopting a post structuralist reading and A to intra textual evidences, it is possible to decipher ideology and hidden signification which underlies the text. Thus, based on this approach, this novel is highly influenced by masculism discourse. The ideal woman of the story is a marginalized character without any social and dynamic feature. She is in fact an explicit image of the house wife or the subject of the spouse. Dominant masculism discourse of this novel supports this passive woman who obeys totally any rule of this atmosphere. Another character of the story is a woman being considered as a serious threat to the secure world under the control of masculism discourse as she wants to move from traditional and already dictated roles and demands the minimal social and civil freedom. She loses her place in favor of the traditional character /woman of the story and at last she has an excluded personality in the cycle of story. The dominant ideology of this novel as the architect of social order could never abide the aggression and violation of modernist currents and suppresses the aggressor (the second woman) and demonstrates her fragile place as lame, seductive, and an anti –social element by demoting her as an antagonist.