Analysis Of Belooking On Women

“Women and Gender in Islam” by Leila Ahmed was published in 1992, at a time when research on Arab women was a young, newly emerging field of study. Leila Ahmed is an Egyptian American writer and feminist. Her text “Women and Gender in Islam” targets proclaimed feminists, both western and non-western, as the intended audience. The text is involved with the discourse of gender, the discourses of women, the discourses of feminist, and colonial and post-colonial discourses.

“Life is full of unhappiness and most of it caused by women (Harik and Marston 11)”. For women in the Middle East life is faced with great and unequal odds, as their human rights are limited, due to Islamic beliefs and that of patriarchy. From their daily actions at home to their physical appearance, Middle Eastern women are portrayed as quiet, faceless women veiled from head to toe. While this image is just another stereotype, women in the middle do face many obstacles and challenges of creating their own identity as they are frequently denied a voice in their rights. Living in a society dominated by men life is not, but regardless women in the Middle East, predominantly Muslims, continue to fight for

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel that provides insight into a young girl living in Iran during the hardship of war. Persepolis takes place during the childhood of Marjane Satrapi. It gives a background of the Islamic Revolution and the war in Iran. Satrapi attempts to guide herself in a corrupted world filled with propaganda. She tries to develop her own morality concerning religion, politics, and humanity. Satrapi was blessed enough to have high class status and parents who had an open mindset about the world around them. Thanks to her slightly alternative lifestyle, she is able to reconstruct gender norms that society has set by depicting the different ways women resist them. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others” by Lila Abu-Lughod is an essay detailing the misconceptions surrounding the veil. Through this essay we can see how colonial feminism, the form of feminism in which western women push for a western way of living on their third world counterparts, has shined a negative light on cultures all around the world - particularly Islamic women. The essay shows how women who don’t conform to American societal structures are labeled as women who urgently require saving. Through this essay one can develop a thorough understanding of the veil itself and the many representations it holds to different entities. Although in Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Satrapi

The extent and degree of information and detail written in this article about each represented author and their contributing works can ultimately be seen as one of the articles main strengths. However, although this article gives a vast amount of information on the women’s opinions and beliefs the article at times seems disassembled and erratic. The flow of the article is somewhat hard to follow, and without an increased measure of concentration, the ability of the reader to comprehend and decipher whom the author is speaking of can be lost. Also, with the extensive amounts of information and detail that each female author contributes to the argument, readers are bombarded with data to interpret and distinguish upon. With the author of the article not decisively choosing the strongest points of argument from each author, the information becomes overwhelming and possibly confusing at times.

There has always been a battle between the roles of men and women. Men are very different to women in many different ways. The essays that Fatema Mernissi wrote “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” and Dave Barry wrote “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” have the same baseline, but are different in their own ways explaining gender roles and qualities. The essays “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” and “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” are both similar, but their approaches are very different by one being humorous and the other being very serious.

In recent years, America’s attention has been gripped by stories of women who have escaped from the Middle East. Each has a unique story, but they all have the same themes of oppression, abuse, and domination. Americans rushed onto the scene ready to “save” Middle Eastern women and many of the activists are now been highly praised for the influence they made in the region. Others, however, have come to question whether the Muslim women in the Middle East really needed the U.S. to rescue them from Islam. *Insert Thesis*

The extreme cultural imbalance that Wolff conveys, between one set of gender values as the dominant and unquestioned source of authority and power, and the other, subservient and powerless. Wolff’s portrait of his mother as a woman seeking to assert her independence in a male dominated world that is far from ready to cede its privileges and recognise the other gender as anything more than a second sex.

In her paper, Roxane uses credible sources and references to appeal to her audience. For example, examining interviews with actress Melissa Leo, The Atlantic magazine, and female leader Marissa Mayer. In addition, she also gives examples of her personal life and opinions about feminism. Inserting these examples and sources makes her claim much stronger. It shows her credibility as a writer by analyzing articles and providing readers with personal experiences.

As a result of the abuse female characters have faced, it has become an objective for authors to prevent this. There have been clear strides recently, putting women as the protagonists, and not in a manner that has them dealing with persecution. The amount of strong, female characters is a large stride in the right direction to end the conflict regarding women’s roles in literature. However, this sudden influx of women in literature may lead to the reversal of the issue; the absence or abuse of men. While certainly literary equality is the end goal, to flip the issue would be just as bad and lead to sexism on the opposite spectrum. To truly mend the rift between genders, there must be no discrimination, the idea that an author is trying to use sexist undertones by not writing the lead as a female should not have to be an idea that readers think about when analyzing modern books. While even still there are issues of gender inequality in literature, there must be moderation from both ends for a resolution to be possible. The only way for equality to be achieved is with the absence of sexist ideals from all

The article "Get Your Feminist Hands Off My Slimming, Colorful, Luxurious Clothes" by Donna Carol Voss is a piece of writing portraying how Donna feels about another article regarding feminism. However, both of the authors view the topic from a different perspective. Donna feels as if her "opponent's" points aren't valid for numerous reasons.

These literary writings address how women were influenced by a “hermeneutic” belief system that placed women mutually in unity to abide by a societal “patriarchal” power (King and Morris 23). Again, women could not communicate their feelings receptively likewise, their values and conceptions were a reflection from their husbands. Essentially, the essay

Society is introduced to new situations, ideas, advancements, and technologies that can change lives in the blink of an eye, but also can change a person’s identity. For instance, Nafisi writes about her country’s ideal culture and the way the people have “…become the figment of someone else’s dreams” (296). The Iranian society has fallen under an introduced idea presented by the government, shifting the daily lives of women who live there. In Iran, women do not get to create an identity they can live by, instead they “…had both a real history and a fabricated one. Although they came from different backgrounds, the regime that ruled them had tried to make their personal identities and histories irrelevant. They were never free of the regime’s definition of them as Muslim women” (Nafisi 296). Women in Iran are not allowed to present themselves in a personal and unique style; instead they must wear what society pictures the Muslim woman in. Not only did this idea change the lifestyle of these citizens, but it also made women lose their identity and ability to present their imagination. Nafisi and Sacks concur that imagination plays a major role in building one’s own identity since it provides a person with the ability to put their personal attributions to

While Tannen and Vendituoli both argue that women experience more prejudice than men throughout their lives, St. John exploits the stereotypes society places on women daily and contests them. Even though Tannen’s essay is the most logical and convincing, all three authors have interesting evidence. Throughout her essay, Tannen makes it clear to the reader that a woman being viewed as marked is illogical. She did so by continuously revealing assumptions that each fell under specific situations. She leaves the reader by feeling defeated, because she knows what is wrong but can do nothing to change it. While Vendituoli’s essay was less effective than Tannen, her mixture of tweets, and people’s opinions around the country were appealing,

This is a significant aspect of the course because the article examines the strengths and weaknesses of femininity through a cultural Muslim perspective and the reading is a prime example of how ideologies regarding race affect those involved. In class we have discussed the significances of social constructs and how assumptions are made on the basis of physical characteristics. In this situation, identity is related to gender as Muslim women are categorized as both good/respectful and rebellious/evil individuals because they are apart of a culture where they are both oppressed and liberated simultaneously.

On that sizzling July afternoon, the girl who crosses at the stoplight in front of our car