Feminist literary criticism is influenced by feminist theory, the expansion of feminism into speculative or philosophical discussion. Fish Hair woman by Merlinda Bobis analyzes the nature of gender inequality and the themes explored are discrimination, sexual objectification, oppression and patriarchy. Fundamental techniques of feminist literary criticism contain identifying with female characters, an approach to contest the male focused viewpoint of authors. It indicates that women in literature are presented as objects perceived from a male standpoint. Another method is reassessing literature in the world, this comprises questioning whether society mainly appreciates male authors and their literary works because it values males more than the opposite gender. The village of Iraya is militarized, times are violent and the river is filled with fireflies where corpses are being neglected. The story revolves around Estrella, a woman who is being used by the military to fish out dead bodies in the river that tastes like lemon grass, using her hair. She asserts that her hair is associated with her heart; the length would increase at least one hand span whenever she recalls anything that agitates her. Meeting the Australian Tony McIntyre, she finds herself falling in love, but he disappears later on. Discrimination is an action that rejects social involvement or human rights to types of people based on prejudice. This includes treatment of an individual or group based on their actual membership in a certain group or social classification, in a form that is worse than the way people are normally treated. The sexual objectification of women includes the act of overlooking the personal and intellectual capabilities of a female; and reducing a woman's significance or role in society to that of an instrument for the sexual craving that she can produce in the attention of another. Sexual objectification occurs when their sexual body parts or sexu