Gender continues to pique my curiosity. Think about this Arabic saying"
"A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence."
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Gender continues to pique my curiosity. Think about this Arabic saying"
"A woman without a man is like a garden without a fence."
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There is a statement in the Talmud, which paraphrased (because I can't recall it exactly nor can I look it up where I am now) says, The king's daughter lives within the castle.
This is used as proof text for ultra-Orthodox Jewish women's traditional domestic role. They are to stay inside the home. It also gets applied to discussions of tznius, the modesty laws, that keep women covered in long skirts and long-sleeved,high-neck tops.
I don't know which text is older or how middle eastern influences have worked over the centuries. It just seems the Arabic and Hebraic traditions are very similar and aren't likely to have developed in parallel vacuums.
Posted by andrea fishman | April 3, 2008 2:30 PM
Posted on April 3, 2008 14:30
It would seem to me that as in the US, the Arabic women are living under a patriarchy, so a statement made of this nature would have come from a man's perspective. Strange how all things are relative and perspectives are similar in many places on the globe. How to change those perspectives in another story. Wouldn't it be nice if there were no patriarchs or matriarchs,and if women and men were considered equal on all playing fields?
Just a thought.
Posted by Susan | April 30, 2008 10:30 AM
Posted on April 30, 2008 10:30