31.01.10
As it turns out, I had no time to faithfully blog my experiences last semester. This semester I am taking a course titled “Myth and Sacred Journeys”. For our first paper we have to research a myth. I’m researching the myth of the veil in Islamic culture. I don’t intend to prove that the veil and the reasoning behind it is a myth in the sense of not being true. It is a very real truth for those that wear it. I am more interested in how it came into being and how it affects the lives of those who wear it.
Right now I’m doing my research for a 12-source annotated bibliography. I haven’t been doing much more than skimming the resources that I find, but what catches my attention is ” A man has the right to beat the women in his family. There is nothing you can do.” And it is almost enough to make me cry. To think that women are seen as so much less than a man that they can be beaten like cattle. I know that it is their culture. I know that it has been the way of things for centuries. But it still makes me sad. I have a feeling that there will be more tears and sadness before the end of my research.
