How Does Culture Intersect With Gender In A Thousand Splendid Suns

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam is an Afghan girl. She is also an illegitimate child or, a harami. This means that she is the child of two people that aren't married. In her culture, because she is a girl this makes her unwanted. It also means that she has to belong to her husband someday. She won't ever be her own person to the people in her culture, she'll be someone's property. This book shows how culture, race, and class can intersect with gender in producing women's experiences with the way it shows that Mariam's culture feels a certain way about women that affects Mariam's everyday life.
Mariam finds Rasheed's magazines and is conflicted. Her culture teaches her that women have to be covered all the time and that their faces and bodies