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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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    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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    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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    Size 6 Mernissi Summary

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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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    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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    Mernissi Size Six Essay

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    While Mernissi criticizes the Western culture and El Saadawi criticizes the Eastern (mostly Arabian) one‚ they both utilize writing in an attempt to advance the communal cognizance of the inequality of the extant social standards and mores. The first and foremost issue of both texts is gender socialization. In Mernissi’s Size 6‚ for instance‚ one of the mentioned problems is that while women are required to look immature‚ childish and brainless‚ men are demanded to be maturer‚ bigger in both size

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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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    Clinger Professor Sonn Religion 317 – Women in Islam 10 May 2011 Fatima Mernissi: Evolving Feminism(s) Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi is described by some as the “godmother” of Islamic feminism (Coleman 36). Much of her career and scholarship focuses on articulating and defending women’s rights in Muslim society. She is credited with publishing the first identifiable work of Islamic feminism‚ The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Womens Rights in Islam‚ in 1987 (Badran

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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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    Mernissi Symbolism

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    Mernissi begins by explaining the dining habits on Yasmina’s farm‚ “We never knew when we would eat. Sometimes‚ Yasmina only remembered at the last minute that she had to feed me” and then goes on to compare the difference between farm life and life in Fez “But dining in our harem in Fez was an entirely different story...we had to sit at our prescribed places” (116). Fez seems to be a place of the past for Mernissi while life on Yasmina’s farm seems to be her current situation. However as Mernissi

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