These are the types of women that are glorified and promoted in our society. As this recent CNN article outlines regarding the death of Gurley Brown, a former major force behind Cosmopolitan Magazine:
"Gurley Brown's 1962 book 'Sex and the Single Girl' encouraged young women to enjoy being single, find fulfillment in work and non-marital relationships with men, and take pleasure in sex, Hearst said. The book was on the bestseller lists for more than a year and became a movie starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Fonda.
When Betty Friedan's book 'The Feminine Mystique' ushered in the modern women's movement in 1963, the two books and their authors helped lead the growing national dialogue about the place of women in society and popular culture, Hearst said."
Each society has its own models and types of behaviors that it promotes. Before we rush to judgement about how backward the Middle East is or how oppressed Muslim women are we should take a look at our own gender roles at home and think about the kind of cheap material values we promote.
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