The current book concerns the representations of marginal mythological and historical women
under the light of feminism and gender theory from different genres of Western Literature
especially English Literature. There is a variety of different genres in this book such as
novels, fairy tales, plays, and poetry written by distinguished scholars discussing the
representations of women coming from a distant past to change their plight and reinterpret
them from a feminist perspective by abolishing all the established orders of the patriarchal
power. The book tackles and problematizes how mythological and historical women are
represented, their images, their status and suppression, marginal lives of women creating an
alternative lifestyle in contrast to the patriarchal dominant order. Women’s issues coming
back from mythology and history recurrently appear in contemporary literature by building a
bridge between the past and the present. By restructuring female images in any literary text,
writers subvert the traditional images of the mythic women. The scholars in each part give
voice(s) to the marginalized feminine identities coming from the history and mythology by
discussing their representations in contemporary Western literature.