Having thrown off the shackles of colonial imperialism, women of the third world are increasingly growing resistant to the cultural

The Feminism movement started with the upper class women of the west. The movement influenced the upper class women in the muslim societies. After mirroring the feminism of the west, today muslim feminism has taken its own identity and at times resents the particular perception the feminism of the west has taken towards it. I think the difference is best depicted in The Hidden Face of Eve, by feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi in her caution to Western women against contrasting their situation with that of women in the Muslim world and acquiring a “feeling of superior humanity, a glow of satisfaction that may blind the mind and feelings to the concrete everyday struggle for women's emancipation”.

The Problem in the for feminism movements in Muslim Societies is that there is no unified ideology of Islam. As a religious doctrine, it means different things to those of the Islamic faith. Beyond the major divide between Sunni and Shiite and other schisms, there are significant differences between countries, between classes, between city dweller and peasant. What each means by Islam in daily life can be quite different. Under Islamic rule, the administration of society is regulated by the sacred texts of the Koran, the shari'a (Islamic law) and the hadiths (the oral tradition going back to the time of the prophet). But in many areas, the teach

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