Hannah’s Reviews > The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World > Status Update
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The woman has therefore lost real ownership of her own body, it having been taken over by the State which, in modern society, has inherited much of the authority and functions which at one time were those of the father in the primitive patriarchal system.
— May 20, 2024 11:16AM
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Hannah
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The ideal woman in novels is still the beautiful, quietly angelic and obedient female, who does not show any particular boldness or ambition. The perfect woman is as pure, and as sweet, and as gently unassuming, as she ever was. A woman with courage or ambition, with eyes wide open, and who shows audacity and strength, is still considered ugly, repulsive, coarse and vulgar.
— May 21, 2024 09:48AM
Hannah
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When he came to God's directive 'do not kill your children,' which refers especially to the practice of burying new-born female babies alive in order to get rid of them, she said 'it is you who have killed our children.'
— May 21, 2024 08:38AM