Novel, Reality and Gender; a Glance at Researches on the Image of Women in the Mirror Of Novel

This article aims at investigating the issues of gender identity in novel, and the way scholars appreciate it from a gender perspective in the Persian novel. Theoretical essentialist and constrctivistic approaches were used along qualitative content analysis in a comparative manner to measure the scholars ’interpretation of gender orientation of writers in the representation of social reality of their era. The statistical population consisted of a book, seven articles and two dissertations. Women were found in the novels evidence of change upon traditional gender attitudes and would see the men as lacking enough experience to represent women’s issues through the novel. Notwithstanding the equal number of scholars in terms of gender, more serious work has been done in the form of books and articles by women and most important explanation about processes, events and figures were: class status, class conflict, personal characteristics, gender, and relationships of the characters and writers with the totalistic tradition and individualistic modernity and efforts toward coping with changes and overcoming the personal unconscious as a collective heritage caused by the emergence of new life styles in a battle with the traditions and manifestation of this failure in the novel, emphasizing the intellectual division of labor in the field of thought in the name of popular feminine fiction for women, its relationship with gender, the Islamic Revolution and international condition. The main focus of most researchers is a critique of the public domain from a gender-oriented perspective which is getting closer to a gender constructivism approach.