Afsaneh Najmabadi

PART TWO: MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CITIZENS:

CHAPTER 3: Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran (pp. 91-125)

Afsaneh Najmabadi

            Clearly, Chapter 3 entitled “Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran” by Najmabadi represents how changes in the modern times are associated with the changes of a woman’s role in the society. Some of these changes include empowerment of women, which can be demonstrated with positions at work, in education, marriage, and even child rearing. Primarily, the focus of Najmabadi’s chapter has been centered on women’s roles in the contemporary society, especially in the Middle East. For instance, the chapter looks into how the role of women is shaped by being a wife, which means that women are to stay at home taking of their child, serving the husbands and doing the rest of the household chores.

            But in a personal opinion, the roles of Muslim women have also changed because of education. With knowledge and awareness, women have become more awakened and empowered to say that her roles are not bounded by the four walls of their homes and tradition. Education as well served as the way for most women to express and voice out their concerns in any issues that matters in the public. This chapter as well opened how women act at work and manage themselves as leaders. Again, these approaches are found to be indebted with education. More so, education that is comprised of various fields and subjects has aided women to become more confident in facing the world, which might be against her.

 PART TWO: MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CITIZENS:

CHAPTER 3: Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran (pp. 91-125)

Afsaneh Najmabadi

            Clearly, Chapter 3 entitled “Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran” by Najmabadi represents how changes in the modern times are associated with the changes of a woman’s role in the society. Some of these changes include empowerment of women, which can be demonstrated with positions at work, in education, marriage, and even child rearing. Primarily, the focus of Najmabadi’s chapter has been centered on women’s roles in the contemporary society, especially in the Middle East. For instance, the chapter looks into how the role of women is shaped by being a wife, which means that women are to stay at home taking of their child, serving the husbands and doing the rest of the household chores.

            But in a personal opinion, the roles of Muslim women have also changed because of education. With knowledge and awareness, women have become more awakened and empowered to say that her roles are not bounded by the four walls of their homes and tradition. Education as well served as the way for most women to express and voice out their concerns in any issues that matters in the public. This chapter as well opened how women act at work and manage themselves as leaders. Again, these approaches are found to be indebted with education. More so, education that is comprised of various fields and subjects has aided women to become more confident in facing the world, which might be against her.

Reference

Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1998, 'Part Two: Mothers, Wives, and Citizens - CHAPTER 3: Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran,’ In Remaking Women - Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, Lila Abu-Lughod (ed.), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.