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Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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Fatema Mernissi
Born:
1940
Died:
November 30, 2015
(aged 75)
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Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
Known for:
Beyond the Veil (1975)
The Veil and the Male Elite (1991)
The forgotten queens of Islam (1993)
Islam and Democracy (1992)
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