Laura Nader's Orientalism, Occidentalism And The Control Of Women

Summarize: Laura Nader’s main argument in her essay “Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women”, is that women in Western and Eastern societies are harmed when male dominance is being competed by men from both hemispheres of the world. Nader also adds that when women from both Eastern and Western societies are analyzed jointly, the result is that male dominance is highly correlated with male completion by men from the Eastern and Western part of the world. Ultimately Nader’s arguments stem back to one idea, and that is when comparing women from both Eastern and Western societies, one only increases a patriarchy dominance over both societies.

Explain: Nader’s aggressively uses references from other scholars in her past to reinforce

Out of the many references that Nader uses in her writing there is one key references that support her main arguments. The first reference that supports Nader’s main argument is used on the ninth page of “Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women”, where she quotes Shaykh Sha’rawi. In the passage by Shaykh Sha’rawi he describes the Western societies and how they abuse there women through the multi-dollar porn industry and acts of rape. Laura Nader choice of using the writings of Shaykh Sha’rawi only supports her main argument, showing that eastern scholars are bound to use religious context to undermine the women of the western world, only because they feel threatened by Western male

This reading portrays prominent point throughout our lectures, readings, and term quizzes. Nader’s main idea from her writing is that women in both Eastern and Western societies are dominated by male competition, but also women are also dominated throughout historical books. If one was to take the big picture from Nader’s writing and spread it across what we have learned throughout the semester, there is one concept that stands out; and that is that women are suppressed from the big picture from history. From our reading on Why History Matters, Learner states, “All of women's history deals with subjects who are gendered women, women functioning under patriarchy and with the weight of a gendered past on their shoulders. It would be nice to have a separate word to distinguish them from female persons living prior to patriarchy, but since we do not have such a word, I use the term "women» with the understanding that it means “women-under-patriarchy.” One can conclude that Learner like many scholars, understands that women under a historical concept have been dominated, controlled by patriarchy systems, and at times left out of historical events. All the more, historical events like the rise communism, the rise nationalism, the rise capitalism all stem with little or no recognition of