Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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moment they lost their youthful attraction, no
further value was attached to them as personalities.
Thanks to “women’s lib” having done away with all
barriers between men and women in western
countries, women now find themselves in the
marketplace. It is only those who have obvious
feminine charms who attract attention, become
popular and manage to make something of their
lives as objects of entertainment. Once launched on
such a course, they begin to regard marriage as an
obstacle to their further progress. They have no
further taste for the quiet satisfaction of domestic
life, preferring the glamour of the outside world.
But the glitter of such a life is short-lived, for the
moment their youth shows signs of waning, these
women find themselves cast off like so many rags.
Having shirked all domestic responsibilities at an
earlier, marriageable age, they can now stake no
claim to domestic comfort and bliss. Forgotten and
deserted, such women of the western world live on
into a forlorn state of decrepitude.
The kind of life that takes shape from being
associated with the family is very different from the
