counterblast
3rd December 2007, 09:02
In this 1907 book, by pioneering Arab feminist Roquia Khatun (later known as Begum Roquia Hussein); we learn about the unique struggle facing the women of Islam, and Roquia's proposal to liberate them by redefining their roles in and out of the workplace in three phases, (1) nonexistent, (2) expendable, and finally (3)necessary.
"The man cares about one thing more than his [conventions]; and that is his money", she writes in one chapter, "the woman must overcome the [latter] before she truely has the power to change the [former]."
It is truely a lost classic (overshadowed by her far more popular book Sultana's Dream) that transends any one culture, and is a definate read for the Western feminist, syndicalist, or union member.
"The man cares about one thing more than his [conventions]; and that is his money", she writes in one chapter, "the woman must overcome the [latter] before she truely has the power to change the [former]."
It is truely a lost classic (overshadowed by her far more popular book Sultana's Dream) that transends any one culture, and is a definate read for the Western feminist, syndicalist, or union member.