Reading 5

            This weeks reading were about the struggle that Muslim women, specifically in Egypt, face. One thing that was interesting was that women did not start wearing the hijab up until the 1970’s. It was a political movement by women in college. It is interesting to think of this because most people presume that it is some form of oppression. Of course now there are many different meanings for the hijab. However most people that were in the work force in the 1970’s, loved there job and considered it a way to get closer to God.

            Abu-Lughod also wrote how arranged marriages were not always the best and that temporary marriages made her uncomfortable. She wrote about a popular liberal screenwriter who wrote an episode for a television show about how a western man fell in love with a conservative woman and he tried to change her but it would not work, she was dedicated to her ways. The man left her and went with a liberal woman and eventually it did not work out with liberal woman and went back to the conservative woman. However by the time the man went back to conservative woman, she was already changed to a liberal woman and the man left her as well. They were trying to show how men have no idea what they want. No television station ever picked this up because it was created in the 1970’s. It was a great example though, how women do change themselves for a man, and he will still not be satisfied.