Not Without My Daughter Cultural Analysis

She is that writer whose works mainly revolve around the women of the Middle East. This book also speaks about the character of princess Sultans. The woman of this region faced very harsh and stern life. The situations which women faced were related to very horrible reality of that time, they are forced to live life like this and this shows the struggle of Sultana’s who took initiative or struggled to overcome challenges of females.

(Malkin, 2005) Women mostly have unequal access to health services and education, face glass ceiling at work place. Social customs that force or encourage girls into early child bearing and teenage marriages have dangerous and direct consequences for their health. There are much high levels of brutality and violence against women almost in all nations around the world. This could be among their families where it is treated a normal custom.

At some point, her rebellion gets so bad that he starts controlling her every move so that she does not have any freedom left. Betty wants to leave Iran but since she cannot leave the country without Sayed’s permission, she becomes his prisoner. Her love for him has now been replaced by hatred. Some of the themes in Not without my Daughter are betrayal, domestic violence, bravery and unconditional love.

The book I Am Malala is about a young girl who is at odds with the Taliban because she disagrees with their extreme views of the Islamic religion and stands up for women’s rights, education most specifically. Malala shows her need for control over her life from the very beginning when she begins her fight for education. A lot of people in the Islamic religion believe that women should never be seen with a male other than their relative. The Taliban despised the idea of women getting an education, but Malala and many others fought back. Many people, her father being the biggest advocate, believed that “lack of education was the root of all Pakistan’s problems” (page 41).

Marjane’s views of nationalism are influenced by her unique perspective that is brought forth by the high political ties within her family. Another important aspect and key theme in Persepolis is how her religion, Islam, influences her perspective. The photograph at left (Shutterstock Online) depicts several Muslim women bowing and reading in a

However, most people do not know what to do, when they confront their fear death, and such a theme plays a huge role in Suzanne Collins dystopian novel “The Hunger Games”. Katniss hates the way the Districts are separated, and generally how the country of Panem is. She mentions a couple of times how she dislikes the rulers because of their acts and the reasoning of The Hunger Games. Generally, she does not like that everyone is controlled by the government. The way the citizens get suppressed by them.

Gender inequality and discrimination in the field of education, media and politics in Assamese society From the ancient age women are said to be weak and fragile and not fit to work. They have been facing discrimination by the man and the society and they still facing and are fighting up against them. People do not realize what is it like to get a woman educated instead they keep her in the house and make her do household or do other work. Man are always said to be superior than women which is not true.

Grossman states that the character of a femme fatale is repeatedly depicted as an antagonist or a dangerous woman, which causes the audience to not side with her or feels any sympathy towards because the patriarchy is structured in a way where man is supposed to have all the power and women cannot (p.4). Most femme fatale become either power hungry or tainted, which leads them to be

Black female characters in Beloved novel are more over scared physically, emotionally by the cruel environment they are living in. they are racially violated and often emotionally humiliated for many years and this woman somehow learn to understand the situation they are in that time. We learn that more of the Beloved females turn to violence sometimes verbal and physical in a way to avoid victimization and in doing so they create the solution towards violence. This females somehow choose to be violated in order to escape in a form of resistance. Both two characters were oppressed during those times and patriarchal took a stand on all society, again woman were subjected by the race as it was only lacks who took a form of being the slaves.

They are marginalized in our country, often deemed inferior to men. In most cases, the years of subordination has led to a general acceptance of the wrath of their husbands. India is a developing country, which is slowly opening its doors to western ideas and lifestyles. The Indian society needs to develop an understanding that no woman is bound to let herself be the victim of any man’s transgression or abomination, regardless of the relation she shares with him. Marital rape is in no sense natural, acceptable and obvious.

The Middle East has long struggled to show their women the rights and freedoms offered to most other women of the world. The struggle to gain equality amongst men has been unsuccessful as women today are still oppressed. They’re forced to cover the bodies and sometimes their faces, they can’t leave their homes without the company of a man, and they aren’t allowed to receive an education usually past middle school. These are just some of the things women are forced to deal with. Despite these restrictions seeming cruel and pointless, there are people who support this, including women.

The battle for ladies ' rights seethed on all through the '60s. Ladies started to feel disappointed with the straightforward lives they as of now lived and they needed change (Document G). Not able to acquire lucrative employments and equivalent rights in the work environment, ladies were living as "peons" in a nation where everyone should be equivalent under the law. The battle for equivalent political rights was likewise joined by a radical social unrest. The "sexual upset" was begun when the conception prevention pill was presented in the mid 1960s.

The constant influences of different cultures, especially at such a young and impressionable age, will undoubtedly create confusion as to what behavior is expected from the girls. The sister’s parents, Mami and Papi, are very strict and traditional due to their upbringing and constant fear of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Whereas Americans, such as Rudy and his family, are trusting, accepting and generally aren’t as traditional in comparison to the Dominican Republicans. But as the Garcia girls are exposed to the American lifestyle, they become confused and slightly resentful towards their culture hence the underage drinking, smoking, and promiscuous activities mentioned in other chapters. This resentment towards their culture most likely stems from the strict rules their parents enforce and the urge the girls feel to “fit in” with American teenagers.

Unveiling Imperialism: I found it unbelievable that these “holy warriors” supported by the US. were the ones to commit attacks on women and that the US government was somewhat responsible chose not to act to in pro of these women in Afghanistan. It is terrible just to think how women 's right were severely curtailed. It is outrageous to think that these women were deprived of their freedom and that they could not attend to school because of all the policies that The Taliban implemented. They were deprived of every right they had, and not only with that, but they were also forced to wear burqas. And because of their economic interests, the US remained silenced and by the side of the Taliban government.

Victim or offender?Even after experiencing the worst crimes, for example sexual violence, women feel powerless because the blame falls on themselves. Margret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a dystopian novel set in the near-future of America that tells a story where women are only valued for their fertility. Powerful or powerless? Within the problems of this novel: the ceremony, the salvagings and the particicution, the novel highlights “power relationships” and the discrimination of women and their power in society. The real question is, are women discriminated against only in this book, or in the real world?