week 11 readigs

Blog for week 11

 

In Najambadi the reading basically tells us how the transition between men and women being the controlling forces in the household. In the beginning of the Iranian society children was directed to men. It talks about how the father was the manager of the household and the wife was basically the barrier of the child. “The father not his wife was the manager of the household and in charge of discipline and education of the children and that the biological mother was not necessarily and at times not preferably the nurturer and caretaker of the child. Basically it was known with tusi that the child should be taught by the mother since she is the one having the baby there was a connection to the womb. Before tusi Kirmani was saying how the women pregnancy attitude reflects on the child like if she mad during her pregnancy the baby will come out angry, this displays that there was already being a connection between mother and child. Tusi just basically put reasoning behind why its vital for the connection between the child and womb.

 

With that connection becoming the new theory that when civilization was basically realizing that the mothers need to be educated. This importance of education to the mother became a necessity in order to fulfill the connection between the wombs, the mother teaching the child. This was kind of weird though because although mothers were recognized to receive education, their education teaching were how to maintain a household, so like cooking, sewing, cleaning etc.

 

In Dicle Kogacioglu basically it approaches the framework of women being murdered. In turkey you have honor murder, which is when the family is not pleased with that person sexual acts and life that represents that family. This assumed to be a tradition which make institutions that’s quote on quote modernization but if its modern, why is it apart of these honor killing?. It’s a cover up just the naming is different and suppose to make the morals and traditions still of honor killings acceptable in so many ways with laws and lack of acknowledgement that institutions are a part of them.

On the other hand I thought it was really interesting with the tradition called blood feud, this was between family in each family killed a male from one another. It crazy because it has the same outcome as honor killing which is death but law seems to condemn this tradition, primarily its unacceptable when honor killing has loop wholes on why this tradition will remain. The only difference is male and women.