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Abstract

This study aims at a qualitative, textual analysis of Paulo Coelho’s novel The Spy, published in 2016, to explore several dimensions of its protagonist’s life from the perspective of socialist-feminism, a theory originally presented by Barbara Ehrenreich in 1976. Among the issues and concerns it centralizes, the subjection and resistance of women about such social realities as class-based interests, class-struggle, etc., are of pivotal importance for the framework of this research. In the novel, Mata Hari goes through the injustices that reinforce the socialist-feminist’s analysis of socio-cultural, economic, political, and legal sources of women's oppression in a patriarchal society organized under a capitalist economic system.