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This study examines the development and significance of women’s literature as a site of resistance, identity formation, and empowerment. Centering on the works of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it explores how women writers contest patriarchal authority while envisioning new cultural and political futures. Using feminist literary criticism, intersectionality, and postcolonial feminist theory, the paper shows how women’s writing recovers silenced voices, interrogates intersecting hierarchies of race, gender, and class, and contributes to global literary traditions. The comparative analysis highlights Woolf’s advocacy for intellectual autonomy, Morrison’s reconstruction of suppressed Black histories, Atwood’s critique of patriarchal authoritarianism through dystopia, and Adichie’s articulation of feminism in a transnational framework. Ultimately, women’s literature emerges not only as artistic expression but also as a transformative praxis that shapes discourses of justice, identity, and equality across cultures.

Women’s literature