Review of the Novel Mothers and Doughters, Book Three: Shahrbanu's Honeymoon, Based on Elaine Showalter's Four_Part Model

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1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, Iran.

2 M.A. in Persian Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Elaine Showalter's four-dimensional model is a woman-centered approach based on examining women's lived experience in four domains: biological, linguistic, psychological, and cultural. Showalter has coined the term "gynocriticism" for this critique. Shahrbanoo's Maheasal, the third work in Mahshid Amirshahi's Mothers and Daughters quartet, is very suitable for reading with this approach, as it deals with various aspects of women's lives. Shahrbanoo's Honeymoon, in this research, is criticized using qualitative analysis and library and document studies to extract and examine its noteworthy features regarding women. The results of the research show that in the biological model, the female body is the starting point of many crises that cross the cultural corridor. The linguistic model in this work is stylistically decisive and the language of each character is his signature. In the psychological model, the author reveals the hidden suffering of women by constantly referring to their psyche. The cultural model has the highest frequency, which narrates the social and historical context of domination over women. Shahrbanoo's Honeymoon is a narrative of women who live at the intersection of body, mind, culture, and language. Amirshahi shows that women's lives are not accidental, but the product of a network of social relationships. The novel's impact lies in the simultaneity of four latent patterns that together create a multilayered image of Iranian women.

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Persian Language and Literature

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Available Online from 07 June 2026

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  • Receive Date: 16 February 2026
  • Revise Date: 10 May 2026
  • Accept Date: 20 March 2026
  • Publish Date: 07 June 2026

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