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Sayeed's Feminist Ideas

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According to Bowell’s feminist standpoint theory, “the process of achieving knowledge begins when standpoints begin to emerge” (Bowell sec 5). In Sayeed’s piece, the appearance is apparent as she seems relegated by her culture, parents’ wishes, religion, sexuality, and role, while she is caught between western culture, religion, feminism and her opinions of what she is trying to mesh together from a place in her own concealed prospective. She deliberates her social circumstances with regard to “socio-political power and oppression” (Bowell sec 5) of a power-struggle of a potential arranged marriage and remaining within her parents expectations. Therefore, Sayeed contemplates finding a balance and to find her own opinion, a collective identity

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