![]() ![]() The analysis has also revealed that the authors differ in the portrayal of Afghan women’s ability to resist oppression and their need to be liberated by the West. ![]() Afghan women are subjected to severe restrictions on their physical appearance and access to the public sphere on religious grounds. The analysis of Armstrong’s and Koofi’s texts has revealed that both authors believe that the Taliban distort and misuse Islam to oppress Afghan women and justify their actions. To reach these aims, this paper has relied on Fatima Mernissi’s The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s rights in Islam (1991) and Lila Abu-Lughod’s Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2013). This research has also examined the influence of the authors’ backgrounds on their portrayal of Afghan women’s ability to struggle and their perception of the extent to which the Western intervention in the country has liberated them. To examine this point, this dissertation has brought into focus the way they seek to control their bodies and access to the public space. ![]() It has investigated the way these authors reveal that the Taliban distort religion to justify their institutionalized oppression of Afghan women. The present dissertation has compared Sally Armstrong’s Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan (2002) and Fawzia Koofi’s The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan to the Future (2012). ![]()
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