WGS 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Henna, Mirror Image, Bsc Young Boys
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Men are the other: boys are the only ones named, men are seen as a universal figure. The feminine body is the other: veiled. Hajila is the other: isma speaks for her, never the subject, the i, always the object, the you, the men other" hajila when she walks on the streets. The french laughing women can be seen as the other (question 5) Women have no power over what direction their lives take: marriage, bodies, etc. No say in what happens to body. She is something owned by husband: p63, p76, p89. Ostracism is disrupted by isma and hajila working together: takes away hatred between women. Sisterhood: isma realized she imprisoned another woman by leaving, p2 and p3. Represents the idea of freedom that hajila doesn"t have: her first glimmer of seeing freedom. Hajila has a sheltered life so this is an extraordinary event: a peer unveiled, no male companion. P25: how women respond to gaze and appropriate it.
