Rotation 3 10 October 2011 “Islamic Women versus Christian Women in the Middle Ages” Women have not always had the rights and positions that they do in today’s society. In the middle ages, Islamic and Christian women had very few rights, and held little religious or political status. Downsides for women in both religious factions were that they were subordinate to the males of their region, could not own property, and were lucky if they received higher education. Women had little to no religious status, but most could pray. Political status for women was possible, but only for those who were in the upper class and were important to society.
In some countries, women have been given the right to even run for the office of presidency, and men are not up in arms over a female not being in some type of veil. Although all this good has been done, and progress seems to be making its way into the Islamic radical traditions, some countries are still in the dark, and do not seem to be accepting new ideas very easily or even at all. Afghanistan, although with all the American presence in the country, has been able to fully accept a position of power for women. Women are not given an opportunity their and education is neglected in some
Unit Nine: Case Studies Assignment Nicole McDonald Kaplan Univeristy HS 100-08 Scenario #1 Do you think Mindy dresses appropriately for the medical facility? Why or why not? I do not think that Mindy dresses appropriately for the medical facility because she has face piercings that a person who works in a medical facility should not have. She also has multicolored hair which is a big no-no in most businesses. At my work, you are only allowed to have one different color besides your natural hair color (whether it is your natural hair color or dyed hair color).
Naheed and Sheila are viewed very differently. Naheed is from a Muslim background and likes to wear her hijab (a scarf that covers her head, neck and throat), and prefers to stay out of the way of people. She believes her body is her own business, but is also a firm believer of women's rights despite her muslim background. People view her as either a poster boy for women's rights, or a fundamentalist Muslim "packing an AK-47 rifle under her jean jacket"(Lesson 3, page 13). Sheila on the other hand, is proud of being seen by the public, she embraces it, and is proud of being seen as a poster girl for the rights of aboriginals.
In East Asia, women were subjected to a strong patriarchal authority. Through the use of foot binding (implemented when they were young) freedom was especially limited. Such as in present day Saudi Arabia women barely had any rights and were thought of as owned and a service to their husbands. Women in present day Saudi Arabia can’t go anywhere without a man and must wear a niqab or a burka to hide them from the affection of other men. Unlike Saudi Arabia today, East Asian women bind their feet to make them appeal more attractive to men.
Did your Islamic religion change the way you and the people around you viewed the war? I notice the different types of clothing, traditional or Western, play an important role in how you are viewed because you can express yourself through what you wear. Did the Western type clothing give you or any other women a sense of individuality and respect? 4. Why does the young Fatima prefer to wear her Tunisian clothes to the Western dresses her mother likes her to wear?
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.
Service users at Peace Haven House can be victims of both covert and overt abuse of power. For example, one of the service users require a carer to come and dress them in the morning, when the carer arrives she makes comments about the service user being a Muslim, but when the carer is around others she treats the service user with respect and kindness. This is an example of covert abuse of power, as only the service user and carer is aware of this kind of treatment. On the other hand, if the carer made comments about the service user or any other service user being a Muslim in front everyone, if she was open about her issues with Muslims this would be overt abuse of power, as the carer is openly making comments in front of
He also put an end to female infanticide and slavery. The Koran does not order women to be covered from head-to-toe or to be imprisoned in their homes”. While all the world is evolving in giving more rights to women, and let them participate in the social and political work, some Islamic countries are fighting to go back in time when any open minded interpretation of the Koran was made. Marianne Lyles says: “In recent years, the International Islamic Extremist Movement
In order to understand her anger one must understand her upbringing as she stated “I come from a country where there is no size for women’s clothes”. In many of the Arab countries that have Muslim women. The men do not choose their wife or women by what they wear, but rather how well that women is able to bare a son/child. In other words the shortness of a women’s dress should not determine a women’s beauty nor should the size, in the eyes of the author. Many of the people listed by the saleslady were and are professional models, whom are idealized by the general public.