To approach the problem of women\\\'s oppression internationally, this paper compares the ideas of two feminist canonical writers, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) and Nawal El Saadawi (1931-). Despite the fact that Wollstonecraft and El Saadawi come from very dissimilar cultures, religions and epochs, they have tackled the issue of women\\\'s oppression, through their female heroines, in a strikingly similar way. Hence, principally through the application of the theories of both the American school of comparative literature and second-wave feminism, the current study attempts to manifest how the respective authors have utilized the same techniques to expose the reality of the patriarchal social system and its direct role in-women\\\'s oppression. It is concluded that the authors\\\' socio-political contexts have influenced their writings considerably. The novelists have conveyed their own experiences through their writings to create an intimate text that in turn validated their ideologies. The paper also shows how El Saadaw\\\'s prose has been a feminist revolution in Arabic literature, similar to that of the eighteenth century English literature led by Wollstonecraft.

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