The Daughters

http://womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2883/context/cover/


this article is really quite illuminating, and, it floods me with an internal conflict. one part of me has massive sympathy for the cause against superficial and sexualised views of women. And also the view that the top-dog would let her husband marry a widowed women, for the sake of the widow. In ancient times, the whole point of this law was so that the widower would be taken care of, since the women back then were fully dependant on their husbands. isnt this the most perfect example of sisterhood and sororal solidarity?

The fact that they want women to be seen as more than cosmeticized dolls and whose love cant be expressed with valentine's cards is deceivingly progressive. The mass protest over a sex scandal shows more radical activity by women, for women, than seen in this country (going on their countries' very much more limited freedoms)!
Our view of women in islamic countries is of silent, submissive, non-entities. However here we see a possibility for a voice. Yet, it does seem to reek of Gertrud Scholtz-Klink's little project, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud_Scholtz-Klink.