Mernissi begins by explaining the dining habits on Yasmina’s farm‚ “We never knew when we would eat. Sometimes‚ Yasmina only remembered at the last minute that she had to feed me” and then goes on to compare the difference between farm life and life in Fez “But dining in our harem in Fez was an entirely different story...we had to sit at our prescribed places” (116). Fez seems to be a place of the past for Mernissi while life on Yasmina’s farm seems to be her current situation. However as Mernissi
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Exploitation of the Female Mind: Fatima Mernissi’s exposure of the manipulative male in “The Harem Within” The ways with which Fatima Mernissi explains the reason for the power struggle between genders are carefully introduced in “The Harem Within”‚ a chapter from Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi assumes the identity of a female child‚ born into an Islamic family‚ in an attempt to elucidate the root of the gender bias that takes place not only in her family‚ but almost all Muslim communities; the complexities
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How much do you know about Fatema Almaomen? “ Happiness can be found even in the darkness of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” -Albus Dumbledore which is Fatimas role model. When you are Fatima there is no limitations when it comes to wishes‚ favorite possessions‚ and even activities and hobbies. Fatema is a unique girl that has an amazing personality when it comes to wild wishes. One of her insane wishes that she wants to have is to meet J.K Rowling. One reason why she wants
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how the media and popular culture portray African Americans. In this essay I hope to examine the life and some of the work of bell hook. In gaining a deeper knowledge of her work I then hope to compare her to Fatima Mernissi across a number of different subject areas. Fatima Mernissi‚ from an early age established herself as a campaigner for womens rights in Islam. Know as the first Islamic feminist‚ Mernissi’s classic study of sex roles ‚ sexuality and
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Amy Nicole Clinger Professor Sonn Religion 317 – Women in Islam 10 May 2011 Fatima Mernissi: Evolving Feminism(s) Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi is described by some as the “godmother” of Islamic feminism (Coleman 36). Much of her career and scholarship focuses on articulating and defending women’s rights in Muslim society. She is credited with publishing the first identifiable work of Islamic feminism‚ The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women ’s Rights in Islam
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While Mernissi criticizes the Western culture and El Saadawi criticizes the Eastern (mostly Arabian) one‚ they both utilize writing in an attempt to advance the communal cognizance of the inequality of the extant social standards and mores. The first and foremost issue of both texts is gender socialization. In Mernissi’s Size 6‚ for instance‚ one of the mentioned problems is that while women are required to look immature‚ childish and brainless‚ men are demanded to be maturer‚ bigger in both size
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in 1912 equal to Women’s size six‚ the same as the eastern man’s demands and control over woman. She is concernd the pressure to be youthful and skinny is possibly more cruel than what goes on in the harems. In the beginning of her article‚ Mernissi claims that men are the driving force‚ requiring women to be skinny and young. She claims the pressure for western women to be thin and young is because the western men demand it. She thinks the American men manipulates time and light and declare
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everyone should step out of the thoughts that they are used to and be more open-minded about the world. In Fatema Mernissi’s article “Digital Scheherazade; The Rise of Women as Key Players in the Arab Gulf Communication Strategies” she is trying divert the attention of Spanish reporters away from the stereotypical mindset that the Arab world just consists of terrorism and women in veils. Mernissi is trying to get the reporters to focus on the positives of the Arab world and give women the credit that
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Nenna ENC1102- 403997 27 July 2014 Thematic Synthesis of “The School Days of an Indian Girl” & “Size 6: The Western Woman’s Harem” In both essays “The School Days of an Indian Girl” by Zitkala-Sa and “Size 6: The Western Woman’s Harem” by Fatema Mernissi the theme is based around alienation and the definition of normal‚ which is tested when these ladies step outside of their homelands. In Zitkala-Sa’s essay she tells the story of a young Indian girl who‚ in transit to be educated by missionaries
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negative stories that can be sometimes sexist. Sexist ads portray women as objects in order to convince consumers to buy the product. Other ads tend to portray the perfect women that each time seems to become impossible to achieve. Kilbourne and Mernissi argue that ads present an unrealistic and unattainable female ideal‚ which is being pictured in a Detour Protein Candy Bar advertisement. This advertisement does not clearly show an exterior or an interior setting that could perhaps be Photo Shopped
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