Concetti Chiave
- The 11 September attacks reignited focus on the relationship between East and West, highlighting women's roles in Islamic countries.
- Women in Islamic countries often appear fully covered, suggesting a reality of submission to male dominance.
- Despite some progress, many women in Islamic cultures still face restrictions due to enduring traditions of male superiority.
- While some countries show improvement, others maintain oppressive practices, limiting women's rights and freedoms.
- The veil remains a symbol of oppression in Western perspectives, representing broader issues of gender inequality in Islamic societies.
The American tragedy of 11 September, with thousands of victims of Islamic terrorism, has dramatically revived the theme of relations between East and West and drew attention to the situation of life in Muslim countries.
The main questions, and most especially for us Europeans, are concerning the role of women in Islamic countries.
Women we see on television or in photographs of newspapers, entirely covered by their dresses and the veil covering their faces make us imagine a contemporary reality different from ours, with a feminine world completely submissive to the male.
There was certainly some development in recent years and women have taken public and professional roles in the past, but forbidden because according to their tradition a woman is regarded as inferior to man, and this concept endures til today.
It remains a legacy of a past world open only in some countries, with prospects for change, while in others repressive regimes are used on women who are forbidden to leave the House without permission and are practically buried under the niqāb, those garments that cover even the eyes.
In other countries the situation is very different and the presence of women is now similar to that found in the rest of the world, but there are areas remained inaccessible to women's participation, such as the army, the bureaucracy, justice.
The obligation of the veil in most Islamic countries is however still present and this is made known by Amnesty International in a report on women in 1995.
In Western society the veil Muslim women is interpreted as a symbol of oppression and at the same time of the backwardness of those countries that impose these rules.
Another problem is that of double dignity: women are often given in marriage when they’re still young.
The idea of women in the countries of Islam, is considered to be inferior and weak, and is also widespread in the literature.
As early as 1859 Gustav Flaubert in a letter to his friend Louis Colet wrote:
"The woman is a machine and nothing more; no difference between a man and another man ".
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Cuál es el papel de las mujeres en los países islámicos según el texto?
- ¿Cómo se percibe el velo en las sociedades occidentales?
- ¿Qué problema adicional enfrentan las mujeres en los países islámicos relacionado con el matrimonio?
El texto destaca que las mujeres en los países islámicos a menudo son vistas como inferiores a los hombres, y aunque ha habido algunos desarrollos, muchas aún enfrentan restricciones significativas, como la obligación de usar el velo y la necesidad de permiso para salir de casa.
En las sociedades occidentales, el velo de las mujeres musulmanas se interpreta como un símbolo de opresión y atraso en los países que imponen estas reglas, según el texto.
El texto menciona el problema de la doble dignidad, donde las mujeres a menudo son dadas en matrimonio a una edad temprana, con matrimonios arreglados por los padres sin posibilidad de disenso por parte de los hijos.
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