Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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women’s movement in France along with
Simone de Beauvoir and others. But both
voice a concern that is troubling feminists in
the West today — Whither women’s lib? Ms.
Greer seems more mellow today: the fire that
raged in
The Female Eunuch
is strangely
missing. “The movement has solved some
problems and left us with a different set of
problems,” exclaimed Ms. Greer. “Perhaps the
problem was that we didn’t take our mothers
with us. We left them behind, found them
antiquated. And now that many of us are
mothers ourselves with teenaged daughters,
perhaps we understand our mothers better.”
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“The West has no answers to the problems of
inequality between sexes,” says the internationally
acclaimed writer Germaine Greer. The erroneous
belief of western women that the females in veils
are unequal and the ones with make-up minus the
head-cover are free and liberated has to be rejected.
Referring to the prevalence of “wife-beating” even
in the so-called civilized West, she asks, how about
the unequal treatment meted out to females in the
U.S. and England in the areas of wages and jobs?