FATEMA MERNISSI EL HAREN EN OCCIDENTE PDF

The Ideal Beauty Size Is 0, flawless skin, perfect hair, perfect teeth, etc. Mar 17, Arda rated it liked it. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Now, in Scheherazade Merniesi West, Mernissi reveals her unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture.

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She should be ready to move, the tale teaches, that love can engulf and imprison you She is impressed by the wisdom Fatema begins her book by narrating the story of The Lady with the Feather Dress mentioned in the The Arabian Nights.

She should be ready to move, the tale teaches, that love can engulf and imprison you … She is impressed by the wisdom of her grandmother,who has always encouraged her to leave her country,and try to learn from other cultures,she uses her Sufi heritage to help her be patient and open to learn…… With the knowledge of other cultures we can compare ourselves to others, and came to gain better understanding of ourselves….

And that oral heritage has been a record for a lot of traditions that has a very powerful effect She thinks that men are irresistibly attracted to independent women and fall deeply in love with them, but are always terrified of being abandoned And that is why men used to imprison women As they recognize their uncontrollable force She then move to another point which is Western representations of Scheherazade in ballet, Hollywood movies and paintings Which was completely different from the eastern point of view As she was seen as intelligent an smart woman who has succeeded in saving many women from death She was using her wisdom to get control over him And get him repent killing all those brides She sees her as woman of a particular political role who was rescuing her own life for stopping all this killing As if she was so ,she would have been killed at her first night, like the others She was trying to say by her stories that you are not the only man who has been betrayed She also differentiate between different Islamic cultures,saying that Turkish women were having control over their men, and gave examples of famous powerful women in different cultures,like Empress of the Mughal Empire , Nur Jahan who was the best tiger haunter I wanna tell u Ms.

Rantisi that this is not existing any more,eastern men are now obsessed with skinny blonde girls