Critique of women-centered approaches in Iranian popular literature research

Popular literature began a century ago with the collection of texts and in the following decades was analyzed using different approaches. Research related to women is an important field in popular literature that has a great potential for study due to the reflection of the silent voices of society. Simultaneously with the universityization of popular literature, various factors led to special attention to the issue of women, especially in this field. In this article, with an analytical-critical approach, first by studying and classifying works related to women in popular literature written from 1300 to 1400, we showed the upward trend of this research and their topics, then the impact of dual approaches of tradition and modernity. We explored the development of different attitudes toward women in popular literature texts, and finally critically examined the analytical theories of several dissertations related to women in the field of folk literature. The results of this study show: The dominant view of women in popular literature texts is negative. They have usually tried to institutionalize the traditional patriarchal approach in the minds and languages ​​of the people. Think of women as cunning creatures and the second sex. In a few works, the woman has been positively praised as a mother. Different theoretical approaches have not been well used in women-centered dissertations and new and different results have not been reached.