This book describes in detail the way a woman should be treated and the way she should treat her husband. The Qur’an expresses that men are above women and that women are inferior to their husbands. It is stated that, “…it is for the women to act as they (the husbands) act by them, in all fairness; but the men are a step above them,” (Q 2:228). It is also stated that, “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other,” (Q 4:34). Muslims tend to treat women so unfairly due to these scriptures written in the holy book.
DO MUSLIM WOMEN NEED SAVING? Lia Abu-Lughod Book Review “Writing against culture” The book “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” by the Lila Abu-Lughod, an academic who has lived many years observing women in the Middle East and the West has a meaning of the most basic conditions of the Muslim women’s lives which are set by political, and economical ethics. She also evaluates the beliefs of the international movement of speeches about ‘the demoralized Muslim women. Her motivation on examining how individual Muslim women experience freedom, rights and restrictions brings a much-needed perception. As an anthropologist who had lived for so long with women in communities where everyone was Muslim, she was forced to reflect on what she could do with the perspective her ethnographic work had given her.
Curley’s wife is portrayed as being a whore – but this is only due to the way she dresses, her provocative ways and the way she acts around men, as if she is aware of her femininity. This could suggest that she is only like this because she is bored, like it is something to do – something interesting for a change. She is constantly trying to get people to notice her. But, because of Lennie’s purity and innocence, he doesn’t see her in the way other men do – a sexual object. When Steinbeck quotes “And because she had confided in him, she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him”, it is clear to the audience that Curley’s Wife is using her sexuality as an object to create some sort of excitement for herself.
Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. With all things you must have a burning passion in the pit of your belly to want to advance and defeat the injustice of this world. In order to put laws into effect there must be a group of people who all agree that new laws should be implemented because of majority vote.
This is the perception of Muslim women that I have been exposed to for most of my life. The media presents to me all I have ever known of the Middle East; women covered in burqas, or wrapped up completely in their hijab. The veil, and women in general, has become a symbol for the inferiority of the Middle East. But, like a person can be wrong about a woman who wears glasses, the world as a whole can be very wrong about the real meaning of the veil, and about their perception of the women of Islam. Leila Ahmed’s The Discourse of the Veil explores the real source of women’s struggles in Islam versus the purely symbolic ones that the West concentrates its critique on.
Laws are enforced in the community which is to further let it be known that the husband is in total control over his wife. Even though the most powerful goddesses and gods are women in the Hindu religion the women are expected to fill subservient roles. If Hindu scriptures can be perceived as the highest authority, what are the scriptures views on the position of women? Women have the same religious and spiritual freedoms in Hinduism as men. Hindu
In the times John Steinbeck lived in women were not held in high regard but they were just present to serve men. However, they still tried to yearn for a better future by exploiting men. The character Curley's wife in the novel is a victim of society and her dream. She is married to Curley who neglects her and so because of her loneliness she is always seeking attention. She wears too much makeup and dresses like a "whore"
Yet, just like terrorism only a select few carry out these blasphemous deeds against woman and because so affect the repute of the Muslim people. In truth, most Muslim communities give women the same rights as any American women, they can own property, divorce, manage household expenses and own businesses. As a matter of fact, there have been many female Muslim leaders, such as Benazir Bhutto former prime minister of Pakistan and the Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. America has yet to have estrogen running the country. Also, it could be argued that while some Muslim villages have traditions where woman are held to a certain standard, in America we have a standard for our women to be impossibly beautiful.
Curley's wife shattered Lennie and George's dream of a farm the same way Eve tempted Adam to eat from the forbidden tree, ending their paradise. By referring to her as 'Curley's wife' instead of giving her a name he depicts how women were second to men, inferring she was Curley's property. Another reason Steinbeck doesn't give her a name is to show that he believes women are minor compared to men; therefore they don't deserve a name. Steinbeck makes a reference to prostitutes in Sandy's place, illustrating the idea that women were just objects in the hands of men making them victims of society. He exposes the idea that "women are treated as nothing more than sexual objects" (Fisher and Silber 254).
#1 Hamlet portrays how society would perceive a submissive woman in the Elizabethan era. This shows the deception, naivety and sly behaviour women were thought to have. “I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another; you jig, you amble, and you lisp and nickname god’s creatures, make your wantonness your ignorance” (III.i. 143-137) This quote reflects the argument because it is evident that men in the Elizabethan era had a patriarchal attitude which caused them to treat women with no respect.