Alawiyya Subuh’s Maryam al-Hakaya (Maryam of Stories) (2002) considers the multifaceted interactions of Lebanese women belonging to three successive generations, shedding light on the social, cultural, and political changes that contemporary Lebanese society has undergone since the French colonial period. The text reveals that women’s growing involvement in cultural and literary production is an integral component of contemporary experience and urbanization and in this paper, I argue that the novel’s fundamental concern with women’s writing can be understood from two primary perspectives. On the one hand, women’s writing against the grain of the patriarchal structure and their reconceptualizations of categories like subjectivity, gender and sexuality destabilize the masculine center by offering new accounts of their own lives. From this perspective, this paper examines the various ways in which women’s urban experiences manipulate and invade the masculine sphere to create a meaningful positioning within urban society in which they can write their own stories. At the same time, this paper scrutinizes the impact of women’s engagements in city life on their decision-making powers and their control over their bodies and sexualities. From the second perspective, these tendencies and particularly women writing in an urban context formulate a new center that secludes other marginalized subjects, especially women of the rural south. Furthermore, by contrasting the city with the rural south, the novel exposes two competing subjectivities. The first is a traditional subjectivity, embodied by the rural south, that values family structure and the father figure and functions as a foundation for gender inequality and oppression and repression of female sexuality. It represents a past that is threatened by an emerging second subjectivity, which is cultivated by urban experiences that highlight individual freedom and self-recognition. Within this context, this paper finally explores the various modes in which women, especially in the village, internalize cultural and social beliefs and gender identity and how this process helps perpetuate the patriarchal structure.