Abstract. This paper is purposely designed to identify the female protagonists attachment to sexism and to elaborate the female protagonists react the sexism. The theory of feminism by bell hooks (1984) is applied in this paper to help the writers of the paper to achieve the purpose. Women attachment to sexism became the focus for bell hooks to sound all over the world since it leads women to be marginal, subordinate, invisible. Those cause women become victims of male superiority.The descriptive qualitative method is used in the paper. The data are in the form of the authors’ narration taken from an anthology of short story of Arab women writers that is translated by Dayla Cohen-Mor. The findings show that female protagonists attachment to sexism are divided into some points. Those are male domination over women, women hating in daily contact with one another, women devalue parenting work, women perform defensive, competitive, and suspicious behavior to one another, and women feel threatened by one another without cause. The ten short story selected for the writers to analyze are worthless media to learn women attachment to sexism since those can arise students’awareness towards the issue.

Keywords: Female Protagonists, Attachment to Sexism, Short Story