Women organized themselves into small teams formed along friendship and interest lines, and split the chores among them" (p. 69).
Fatima describes the women's gardens. The men's garden was quiet and formal. But in the women's garden, "each co-wife claimed her own little plot of land which she declared to be her garden, where she raised vegetables, hens, ducks, and peacocks" (p. 50). The women's gardens bustled with activity. Gardening was the favorite work of Fatima's grandmother, Yasmina, whose apartment was simple because she didn't "care about all that, as long as she could...have enough space to experiment with trees and flowers, and raise all kinds of ducks and peacocks" (p. 50) Yasmina also "took care of Tamou when she was sick..." Tamou had a nervous breakdown (actually, post-stress disorder) after her family was killed in the war. Yasmina "cared for her for months until she recovered" (p. 52).
The work of status enhancement is work invariably done by women, which involves putting on a show for others that builds and maintains the status of the man who "owns" her and helps his career advance.
It includes things like volunteer work, arranging dinner parties, and organizing charity events. In the harem the #1 wife, usually from a rich family, lived more opulently and conspicuously than the other wives who were from more humble beginnings. In the city harem where the writer lived, Lali Mani was this person. She was excused from household duties. Her salon was "furnished with silk brocade-covered sofas and cushions running along all four walls; a huge...
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It is possible that early American history would be taught very differently today if based on history books such as this. To play devil's advocate, there perhaps would have been women historians who agreed with the men's decisions, women historians who did not believe in the actions of their fellow females. Those histories, too, would have had an impact on today's perspective of that period. Similarly, what would have happened
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