It is incorrect to allow others frame a woman's identity. In fact no one's identity should be tampered with especially if the person is an adult! It is ever so easy to set rules and regulate the behaviour of people, especially that of women in a patriarchal set up - but all said and done this is nothing but infringing on a persons right to being! The early philosophers were always chasing the answer to the question of being - if so why tamper with a person's ontology thus?
Rules governing women should not be such that her ontology is framed and defined for her. In such cases she is not free to evolve her own identity from the changes that occur to her life and her environment. This then is her epistemology and no one has the right to tamper with that too!
Rules such as codes of behaviour, codes of mobility, dress codes, codes governing choices the woman makes in her life time are all absolutely incorrect. Such codes MUST be done away with.
The voices of women that have been voiceless for ages, must be heard - whether it is a statement she makes by speaking, or by working, or by moving, or by dressing - that is her identity and it must not be tampered with.
This then is empowering a woman to be herself! to think for her self and to make decisions in her life - this then is true empowerment! Empowerment for the new woman - who emerges with her own identity.
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