As the “Historical Note” of The Spider's Web begins, it is a mystery about the mid-seventh century A. D. The writer tries to create and support it by a scenario that is taken from the present time to convince the reader to believe the story. The writer elaborates in such detail about the laws that in the present time are still struggled for--- mainly for feminist rights. These laws were easily accepted centuries ago when we know that most of the countries in the world were and are still male dominant. The writer lures probably all feminists. He creates a curiosity to read the “winning female” story. I think, that Irish men wrote the real book on feminism, back in the seventh century. However, at the present time, in some countries the women don’t have any rights. In other countries, women seem to have equal rights, yet, they can’t get to certain positions. Today in the USA, like in ancient Ireland, women have the right to hold a public office, like the senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, to be independent, self employed, a professional such as a pilot, or an officer in the military or to have their husband’s property as a divorce settlement. Yet, no woman was elected or nominated to run for presidency. Today, in Muslim countries, like Saudi and Afghanistan, women have no rights whatsoever. They are forbidden to be educated or even to show their face in public. Their father sells them into marriage, and, if divorced, they would be returned to their father. The husband will be refunded his money and awarded the children. If the father feels that the woman disgraced the family, a male member of her family would execute her. The ironic thing is; in the mid-seven centaury an Irish women had so many rights yet; today, in an Arab country, women have none.
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