In the Department of Arabic Language, College of Arts, University of Basra, a master's thesis entitled "Feminism in the Duality of Batoul Al-Khudairi (How Close the Sky Seemed to be Close -Absent): Sayings and Representations"  was discussed.

The thesis presented by the student Marwa Hadi Lafatah included three chapters: The first chapter dealt with the concept of feminism and femininity. The second chapter referred to the self-representations of feminism and the third chapter shed the light on the representations of heterosexual feminism.

The thesis aims to reconsider the relationship between men and women in order to develop ways of partnership that based on the principle of equality, unifying efforts of reform and change,  calling for the liberation of women from oppression and slavery, and  reformulating the structure of society that includes male domination.

The thesis concluded that feminism is a movement that calls for correcting the status of women in society, through women affirming themselves and gaining confidence in their abilities to enter the world of writing and highlighting their awareness and culture in it within literature.

The study discussed the reasons for women resorting to writing, which is their creative outlet and their launch into the world, and achieving their presence through invoking the repressed and implicit in their appearance in the texts of the novel.