Reversed Scales and Self-Rebellion in Nawal El-Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero: A Third Wave Feminist Study

This paper tries to investigate Nawal El Saadawi's novel, Woman at Point Zero (1975), from the point of view of reversed values and inverted scales. The study displays the difference between social ethics and the real practices in Egyptian Society from the point of view of Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021). This reveals that El Saadawi urges women to struggle and revolt against their societies, calling real equality with men. The study assumes that El Saadawi adopts the third wave feminism. It traces identity that is related to sex and the existence of different female models, economic independence, social refusal of male-female sexual equality and circumcision, violence, and informal social inequality with men, as aspects of the third wave feminism.