Feminist critics on Joyce can be classified into three parties: the French, the North American, and the British. Among them, the North American party stands out. They maintain that Joyce depicted women characters as symbolic or archetypal and not as realistic as men characters. Joyce is also asserted to have presupposed women as passive beings. In addition, feminists, especially Gilbert and Gubar, attack Joyce as misogynist on the ground that he belittled a woman writer`s style. The opposition we have to them is that he is a realist who tried to describe women characters as they were, under the oppressive sexual ideology of that era. The ideology regarding women in Joyce’s time is that they were either of virgins or whores, and that they should be kept within the home, which Joyce criticized in terms of social realism. On the issue of his parody of a woman writer`s style, he did not intend to condone female inferiority but to write in a way of palimpsest as women writers would. Such writing proves that he knew how women writers avoided the censorship of a male-dominated society and that he had sympathy with woman’s social conditions. That is why we conclude that Joyce did not ignore women as the others, but, on the contrary criticized such fixed ideas as Gilbert and Gubar would also like to eliminate.