ARB 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fatimah, Sharia, Clitoridectomy
3 Apr 2019
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Islam banned sexual contact outside marriage: gift not payment: before islam, marriage gifts were given to a woman"s parents as "proxy payment". This false legacy led to a wrong standard of morality about femininity, wifehood, motherhood and sexuality. Culturally imposed powerlessness explains why arab women are depicted negatively in arab mythology (that they are masters of trickery and wit) Fitna is all superstitious and has no basis. So all of these issues and false legacies created by societies controlled by men led to imposed powerlessness. Sometimes can get in trouble for just walking with a man in the garden (sexual misconduct: men would find it in their own right to punish the girl. School for girls in lebanon started in 1834; school for girls in cairo started in 1871: girls were welcomed at the american university of beirut in 1866 and the french-founded the. Jesuit university in beirut in 1875: other establishments also welcomed girls.
