He encouraged her in certain respects and then turned into a typical father later on. Those are my questions. You may email suggestions for discussion as you read the novel or when you finish. I will check them before class and try to include them in the discussion. Does it appear that the Meccan example upholds or refutes the theory of correspondence described by Eickelman.
Most people believe that the story of modern history is also the story of progress.
But Erika Friedl s discussion of women in rural Iran indicates that the development of a modern economy has caused women to lose sources of power and influence. It is possible, then, for women to attain greater material comfort at the same time they become more subordinate to men. Tabari asserts that economic modernization brought women into the paid labor force as professionals and industrial workers, and that modernization has liberated women from the suffocating bondage of comunal values.