It was obvious that this was a speech written by a European man, who gave to the slave revolutionary Boukman the kind of European phrasing that might have sent the real Boukman turning in his grave. However, the speech made Guy and Lili stand on the tips of their toes from great pride…they felt as though…they had been given the…pleasure of hearing the voice of one of the forefathers of Haitian independence…(Danticat 56-57)
Now, as soon as they learn our nationality, they go through everything, as though we were terrorists. They treat us as though we have the plague (Satrapi 79)
Persepolis starts off with the statement that: "In 1979, we were in a religious school / Where boys and girls were together. / And suddenly in 1980 / & #8230; / We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends" (Satrapi 2003a: 4)
Ironically, women under the Shah wanted even more political and social liberation and many of them participated in the Revolution in the hope of them gaining equal rights to men. Not only was their metaphorical veil tightened, but they had to don a physical veil too and were punished if they removed it (Tabari 1986)
Defining Islamic Feminism is a universal debate in the broader world and even in Iran and other Islamic nations as is the real social and political standards that are to be upheld by women in a male dominated society. (Moghadam 1135) The kind of backlash that would occur if an expatriate woman, activist or not, social mover and shaker or not is always substantial when she returns to her home nation as even if she has every intention to live by restrictive cultural standards she is often held in contempt by her society as she is perceived as having been corrupted by western ideals