What Is Feminism In America
According to Randa Abdel-Fattah, the author of Ending oppression in the Middle East: A Muslim feminist call to arms, if women have to cover themselves from head to toe, why are women still being sexualized if they aren’t provoking? Women still are being groped, raped, harassed, and fondled by men. Fattah goes on to explain that she believes men are hypocritical. They force women to cover up so they do not recieve any male harassment, yet the males keep on harassing.
Case Study:Feminism in Saudi Arabia
In America, women do not rely on male authority in order to live their lives. Women can freely attend to their daily lives without needing a man watching over. They are free to drive down to the supermarket and buy groceries. They can vote. …show more content…
There are countless women who are experiencing fear of change, fear that they wouldn’t know what to do if given equal rights. These women have been under men’s rule for so long that it’s the only way they know of living. For some, the fear of gaining new responsibilities is what holds them back from wanting freedom. This fear comes from the influence that America has put on these foreign countries in order for women to be granted equality. America is land of the free, and women do not have restrictions. However, these Saudi women have seen what women do in the US, and some aren’t ready to put up with those tasks yet. Al Nafjan Eman describes how women don’t want to open the door that allows [them] to run around the city doing errands all day”. Others who agree with ban are signing a campaign that requires signatures in order to call for the extension of gender segregation laws throughout Saudi Arabia’s hospitals, and would like to include malls. Not only are some people fearing change, they’re also fearing that once the gender stereotyping is over, women will become full equals, something men aren’t comfortable with either. In Abdallah M. Elamin and Katlin Omair Males’ Attitudes Towards Working Females in Saudi Arabia, they explain the justification of gender role by saying that they are “closely connected to surrounding culture, that is, they reflect cognitive beliefs about differences between masculinity and femininity that the members of a particular culture share”
Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country that has religious acts that ban women from
Case Study:Feminism in Saudi Arabia
In America, women do not rely on male authority in order to live their lives. Women can freely attend to their daily lives without needing a man watching over. They are free to drive down to the supermarket and buy groceries. They can vote. …show more content…
There are countless women who are experiencing fear of change, fear that they wouldn’t know what to do if given equal rights. These women have been under men’s rule for so long that it’s the only way they know of living. For some, the fear of gaining new responsibilities is what holds them back from wanting freedom. This fear comes from the influence that America has put on these foreign countries in order for women to be granted equality. America is land of the free, and women do not have restrictions. However, these Saudi women have seen what women do in the US, and some aren’t ready to put up with those tasks yet. Al Nafjan Eman describes how women don’t want to open the door that allows [them] to run around the city doing errands all day”. Others who agree with ban are signing a campaign that requires signatures in order to call for the extension of gender segregation laws throughout Saudi Arabia’s hospitals, and would like to include malls. Not only are some people fearing change, they’re also fearing that once the gender stereotyping is over, women will become full equals, something men aren’t comfortable with either. In Abdallah M. Elamin and Katlin Omair Males’ Attitudes Towards Working Females in Saudi Arabia, they explain the justification of gender role by saying that they are “closely connected to surrounding culture, that is, they reflect cognitive beliefs about differences between masculinity and femininity that the members of a particular culture share”
Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country that has religious acts that ban women from