Yazbec, Olga (PhD)Daniel, Nahom2018-06-212023-12-052018-06-212023-12-052012-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2515Traditionally, women have been relegated to the margins of society, history and culture in male-dominated environment. Patriarchal systems have long denied women to play an appropriate role in nation building and to enter the public sphere. The representation of female characters in fictions by female writers is different from that of men owning to the fact that they have different life experiences. Both the novels that have been selected for the analysis, Nibut and Yederasiwa File, are written by female Ethiopian writers. The aim of this thesis is to examine and analyze the images of women in the works of Ethiopian female writers. The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter one deals with the background, statement of the problem, objectives, significance, methodology and scope. The second chapter presents a review of related literature. In this section, an attempt has been made to review material related to this study. In the third chapter, an attempt has been made to explain the conceptual framework which focuses on Socialist feminist literary theory that has been applied in this study. In the fourth chapter, the selected novels have been examined and analyzed using the framework discussed in chapter three. The writer of this research has found out that the writers of the selected novels have tried to reverse the traditional stereotypical portrayal of women by giving the major female characters the face of the New Woman which is characterized by being intelligent, educated, self-reliant, etc. On the other hand, it has also been observed that the female characters are exposed to sexual abuses and harassments, and also are victims of traditional gender roles that have long been established by patriarchal dominated society. Then, the final chapter is the conclusion. In this section a brief summary and some findings have been given.enWomen in Nibut and Yederasiwa FileThesis