The subjectivity of Nawal Al-Sa'Dawi: Critique on gender relations in religious construction in Adab Am Qillah Adab Work

This writing examines three short stories in the short story anthology of Adab Am Qillah Adab by Nawal Al-Sa'dawi, namely: "Adab. Am Qillah Adab", "al Umm al-Suwisriyyah al-Qatilah", and "Qissah Fathiyyah al-Misriyyah". The analysis focuses on Nawal al-Sa'dawi's critique of religious constructions of gender relations. The subjectivity of Salvoj Zizek is the theory used and hermeneutics is the method of analysis. The purpose of the study is to find out the reasoning behind the radical acts of Al-Sa'dawi over her rejection of patriarchal religious constructions in her three short stories. The result of the analysis shows that the literary work is the explanation of the radicalization of the author's actions, Al-Sa'dawi, as a subject. Such radicalization is her rejection of the needy Symbolic (patriarchal religion construction) as her attempt to escape the Symbolic. Al-Sa'dawi continues to move because the subject is split and empty. Therefore, Al-Sa'dawi makes an effort to seek full self-fulfillment to and approach The Real in order to kill the old tyrannical Symbolic and pick up the new Symbolic, which is the construction of a just religion and liberate women.