Gender Stereotypes In Isma's So Vast The Prison

In another context, this time is comparing a working woman with another woman we find that the same perception is manifested, “go home and stay as long as you like. If there’s something for you to do I’ll send it along with your husband. At least you’re raising a family, not like that slut who turned you in!” Thus a woman’s honor and dignity often consist in her strict adherence to idealized norms of wifehood and motherhood, as they are associated the traditional roles of wife and mother to females. As a result, such unequal practices help in making gender asymmetry conceived, internalized and borne out of this need not be over emphasized. Therefore, women are looked at mainly as child carriers as well as helpers for their husbands as the …show more content…
The dichotomy of public/private certainly underscores the Moroccan patriarchal victimization of women. Women’s voices were mostly squashed and they were projected more in the private domain while men operated in center …show more content…
Isma, the protagonist has retold her childhood’s memory at school, which was man’s world Par excellence at that time; Isma expresses many times her “invisibility” among boys as she traces gender division. “I only see the boys from the back… I am in the grip of anxiety, as if I were the child up there whose diction is deficient, but I also think I am invisible.” She is well aware of her invisibility among boys; she knows also the social and cultural boundaries that dictate on girls certain ways in dealing with them, she continues, “I do not remember any one in particular. I never speak to them of course, neither before nor after. Not one word: they are boys. Despite being so very young I must sense what is forbidden.” In this vein, the narrator seeks to reveal the “injustice” of these patriarchal gender roles even on a little girl, she bitterly describes in the following passage how she felt at that