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This chapter confirms the existence of an intersection between two important genres Feminist Literature and Prison Literature along with the approaches and aesthetic tools. The quest for freedom, revelation, unbosoming, revolution against persecution, and destruction of all the forms of authority constitute central points of intersection, which reach their burning point when the writer herself is the prisoner who lives the experience of imprisonment and she reveals her experience through writing a narrative text. Prison Literature is a revelation and a rebellion against suppressive authority, Feminist Literature is also a rebellion and a revolution against masculine norms, including breaking the political, social, and religious taboos. Prison literature is an outcome of real experiences, and its authors may have experienced a prison life or may heard about it through the experiences of others. Social and political reality has a connection with Prison literature. It also denounces the tactics of intellectual terror and political oppression, which violate citizen's rights, restrict their freedom, and deny them the ability to express their opinions freely.
This study suggests calling this type of literature written by such women writers as "Feminist Prison Literature" and seeks to clarify this interconnectivity and prove that the prison literature that the woman writes does not differ in its themes and features of its revolutionary content, its artistic devices and techniques from men's prison literature. This chapter has developed by reviewing a case study, the novel al-Sharnaqa/ the Cocoon by the Syrian woman writer, Hasiba 'Abd al-Rahman. The authors of the novel reveal the woman's exposure to repressive manifestations. In return, the study reveals the woman's attempts to rebel against these obstacles in her quest for freedom, and boldness to penetrate the forbidden trinity.