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My Forbidden Face

My Forbidden Face by Latifa relates to this course in a number of ways. First, the fact that the author cannot divulge her real name for fear of being beaten, raped, and/or killed is one way that the book correlates with the class. Other examples are subordination of women, veiling, and keeping women out of the public eye. The Taliban are very extreme in their treatment of women; in fact, it is almost as if they are living in the very distant past.
Lerner talked about how slavery came about because of the subordination of women. The Taliban have achieved the subordination stage, but have not yet gotten to the point where there is slavery. "We are impure-but that doesn't stop them from slapping a woman with their bare hands and shoving her into barbed wire!" (pg 58-59) Talibans think of women as evil and worthless. "‘You're nothing but a woman! You have no right to speak, no right to raise your voice.'" (pg 60) In this society men have absolute rule, but it is not even......


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