feminism

This was one of the best books I think we have read in class, although I find them all interesting. I was thinking about the question we left class with... "Is this text feminist?" I think the obvious answer to this question is yes. However, how so? When we discuss the meaning of the veil and why women are forced to wear it, yet men are not, isnt that sexist? The fact that Marji is a woman and goes to protests although that is not the norm... doesnt that make here feminist? The fact that she, although it is against her religion, has sex because that is what she, as a woman, wants... isnt that feminist? There are several discreet inferences to the feminism and I think that as a class on Tuesday, we overlooked them. Seeing she was not engaged in an egalitarian relationship like the bems, and she didn't protest for women's rights doesn't mean she is not feminist. She stepped outside the norm. She didn't conform to the Islamic code and because of that... she is a feminsit