Why does a woman size determine if she is normal or average? When it comes to our everyday lives judgement and stereotyping people has been around for awhile and most likely will never go away. In the essay "Size 6: The Western Woman’s Harem" by Fatema Mernissi talks about her troubles she faces in America. Id like to believe that a womans self image and a womans physicality are very important to a womans issue. The environment created is an restrictive and demeaning as a harem by the idea that our
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Kennesha Lee Professor 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
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July 21‚ 2012 Size Six Western Women’s Harem Critique The inconsistency’s found in the article size 6: The Western Women’s Harem‚ written by Marnissi eave one to question the arguments validity. She starts by sharing her shopping trip to purchase a skirt in New York City. Then she blames Western men for requiring women to be young and a size six to be considered attractive. She also refers to the Chinese foot binding era that was abolished in 1912 equal to Women’s size six‚ the same as
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Expectations In “Size 6: The Western Woman’s Harem”‚ Fatema Mernissi‚ a middle aged Moroccan woman‚ ventures into an American department store‚ only to find a stuck up saleswoman who seems to be degrading her because of her size. The woman tells Mernissi that the high end department stores only carry up to a size 6‚ and that that is the norm in America. Mernissi explains to us that in her hometown of Morocco‚ the men drool over her “generous hips”; while in America‚ men seem to like women who look like
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East Africa 3. Adjustment a. Women 1. Many societies matrilineal a. But…Sharia…Islamic law says it must be patrilineal b. Many visitors shocked at African women’s equality 2. Impact of slavery – 4.8 > 7 million traded a. Always existed‚ Muslims brought it to new heights 1. Muslims saw slavery as process in conversion b. Used as servants‚ laborers‚ soldiers‚ administrators‚ eunuchs‚ concubines 1. Led to desire to enslave women and children 2. Children of slave
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against plus size women shopping in there stores. My objective is to develop a research and marketing plan to incorporate this particular target market into today’s biased society because plus size women want to look and feel phenomenal too. As a way to end size discrimination we want to create an environment that accepts those that are different in terms of size and let people know that “fat” is in‚ but not in this context; (PHAT) is back and we view plus size women as PHAT-PRETTY
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In the essay Size 6 Mernissi compares the different beauty standards set in western countries to Eastern countries such as Afghanistan‚ Iran‚ and Saudi Arabia‚ and her home town in Morocco. She uses Pathos to talk about her personal experiences with these ridiculous standards set by western society. In the first paragraph she compares these standards to a veil‚ much similar to the veils women in eastern countries wear. The metaphorical veils are forcing women to limit the beauty they project into
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Images of Women in Western Civilization Women’s Roles in Society and Contributions to the Art during the Renaissance Period GENTILESCHI‚ Artemisia Judith and Her Maidservant 1614‐20 Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti)‚ Florence The Renaissance is the period in history that served as a liaison between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age era. Historically‚ it is the period known for great changes and adaptation‚ the cultural movement and the rebirth period that lead to great contributions
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Essay: Western Women are Free or Not More women are used as toys for the pleasure of men and the marketing industry for big companies. This is the case with some of the women in America and Europe. Although this may seem like a small minority‚ women do not have freedom in the western world. People would argue that western women are free because women can do just about anything a man can do in their societies. Women have more rights in the western world than any other part of the world‚ so that
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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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