PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal Development: I Can't Think Straight and the other being The World Unseen



Personal Development: I Can't Think Straight and the other being The World Unseen

Throughout history times have changed, this can also be said of women. As periods changed so did the demands and opportunities. Women were able to adapt to these new changes remarkably well, and so they were able to shape and influence these periods, as well as benefit from them. Life for the American woman in the 19th century was full of conflicts and struggles. Women suffered from a lot of discrimination, and were not allowed to vote, attend universities, speak in public or own property, and were essentially forced to fight for their place within society. Regardless of these difficulties, women gathered strength in numbers and succeeded in establishing permanent social changes. In learning sexuality, our gender roles are very critical. Our gender roles tell us what behavior is appropriate and it dictates what sexual impulses are appropriate or suitable. Our sexual impulses are organized through sexual scripts. By definition sexual scripts are "the acts, rules, and expectations associated with a particular role. Sexual scripts come into play when we enter relationships with members of the opposite sex, or of the same-sex depending on your preference. Sexual scripts are a way to express our values and attitudes toward sex.

The world unseen is the debut novel/movie of Shamim Sarif which has brought her great appreciation, much more than what she actually expected. Shamim's writing in this book is very delicate, but confident. The characters in her book are so well presented that they seem to be real and the situations are very believable. The story is about two women Miriam and Amina, who are of different natures, but yet get attracted towards each other and gradually their relationship blossom into love. (Alan Woods 2009 pp. 12)

Set in the apartheid society of South Africa during the 1950s, the writer beautifully describes how the lives of two women with opposite natures turn upside down, when they meet each other and a relationship starts building up between them. The fanzines, self-designed and self-written, uncensored and uninhibited photocopied publications, are often intensely personal. That personal outlet is translated to larger political action when the fanzines are available to the public, bringing people together for conventions and other consciousness-raising activities.

The ethos is about supporting each other and empowering each other Shanim Saarif possesses the perfect characteristics of the short story writer: rigorous self-discipline in the planning process, an eagle eye for condensing detail, a capacity for using the personal and individual to suggest universal truths and a skill for hinting at a wider world beyond the story, all of which can be seen in her two collections of short stories. This revolution is so real and so deep for me, it is something I have been waiting for my whole life, something that I think is imperative to my survival, or at least my ...