Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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church, has fractured into atoms with separate
orbits. The American woman, having shunned
motherhood and house-wifehood 15 years ago to
establish herself in the labor market, now seeks to
balance all three lives like dinner plates on sticks.
The American man finds himself in new and scary
territory and scrambles for adjustment. When the
American man and woman part company, as half
the newly married couples are expected to do these
days, the American child is suddenly stranded,
growing taller without a structure.”
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As they near the close of the twentieth century the
American intellectual class are acknowledging that
what they thought of as the ladder of progress, at
the beginning of the 20th century, has turned out to
be the ladder of destruction. Taking women out of
their homes has only resulted in the total disruption
of the American family system. The rosy plan of
liberating woman has, in practice, resulted in so
many social evils.
Now new thinking is emerging from a revision of
past errors, but modem woman is not ready to go
back to her former role as a housewife, even if the
