Abstract

• This research explores radical feminist beliefs injected by an American woman writer Marilyn French in her well-known novel The Women’s Room which was first published in 1977. The objectives of this research are to investigate types of feminist beliefs found in the novel, to find out which type of belief is the most dominant in the novel, and to examine whether the writer’s beliefs reflected her society at that time. The investigation was conducted mainly based on Willis’ (1984) feminist radicalism, focusing on core beliefs of radical feminists, and some American scholars’ social texts that revealed the conditions of women in the mid twentieth century. The findings showed that of all types of beliefs, political beliefs occurred most in the novel. Moreover, the research proved that Marilyn French’s feminist beliefs reflected the bitter experiences of women in the patriarchal society in America at her time.