Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi, has been neglected by African feminist commentary, probably because of its radicalism. 20th-century African feminisms, under different names and descriptions, generally advocated a moderate approach to gender relations, refusing to exclude or stigmatize men. However, a change is underway in the attitudes of younger African feminists, especially in South Africa, as the recent #MenAreTrash and #AmINext hashtags and protests about rape culture have demonstrated. The protagonist of Saadawi’s novel, Firdaus, who discovers her true vocation in the action of killing a man, matches and outstrips the anger of these younger feminists. So radical is Woman at Point Zero that it appears to advocate androcide as a response to patriarchy, which, to Firdaus, represents multiple types of abuse and injustice, including capitalism. This paper explores degrees of feminist radicalism as well as developments in African feminist thought, before considering Woman at Point Zero as an example of the radical extreme whose time may have come. The novel exists, if not as a provocation to direct action, at least as a terrible warning to men – and members of other genders – and hence as a trigger of radical change.

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Nawal El Saadawi 的《零点女人》中的激进女权主义和 Androcide

Nawal El Saadawi 所著的《零点女人》一直被非洲女权主义评论所忽视，可能是因为它的激进主义。20 世纪的非洲女权主义，在不同的名称和描述下，普遍主张对性别关系采取温和的态度，拒绝排斥或污名化男性。然而，正如最近的#MenAreTrash 和#AmINext 标签以及关于强奸文化的抗议所表明的那样，年轻的非洲女权主义者的态度正在发生变化，尤其是在南非。Saadawi 小说的主角 Firdaus 在杀死一个男人的行动中发现了她的真正使命，匹配并超越了这些年轻女权主义者的愤怒。《零点的女人》如此激进，以至于它似乎主张将雄性杀戮作为对父权制的回应，在菲尔道斯看来，这代表了多种类型的虐待和不公正，包括资本主义。本文探讨了女权主义激进主义的程度以及非洲女权主义思想的发展，然后将《零点女人》视为可能已经到来的激进极端主义的一个例子。这部小说的存在，如果不是作为对直接行动的挑衅，至少是对男性——以及其他性别的成员——的可怕警告，因此是彻底变革的触发器。