"By putting the spotlight on the female child……" — Fatema Mernissi

By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as… - Fatema Mernissi

"By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity."

— Fatema Mernissi

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