a woman's worth

ok so i recently picked up this book from the library and i am kind of into
these books about women's plights mostly those who get tricked into marrying a certain type of man
and get thrown into their own prison where only their body is used to churn out babies.
ok so i sound a little a sadistic but reading about it only shows me how important the fight against all this really is.

so this book "Samir and Samira"
well it says that its about a girl who's father was devastated when the first child was a girl and not a boy.
i havent gotten past the first chapter yet but i must say what i have read about women is realli heart wrenching.
A woman is not a woman until she bears a son for her husband.
being in the tent in which his wife is conceiving is also forbidden. people would despise both of them and call the woman a bad person for reasons i myself do not know.
then this woman asks herself what is her worth when she has given birth to a girl and instead of her husband giving her presents and offering a lamb or throwing feast or even being with her by her side, he has gone off to the mountains and not cried tears of joy at all.
what is her worth?
and the man goes to say that in these mountains he worships a rock and it is the holy rock and
that if he broke the law a disaster would come
but to him a disaster had already befallen,
his daughter was brought into this world.

what is a woman's worth when she hopes that instead of her child being born a girl her child would have been born dead?
what is a womans worth when she see's herself as a baby making machine and nothing more?


havent we changed all that?
havent woman become some of the most important figures around now?

i know its too early for me to judge this book definitely not by its cover
but it does remind me of how other woman live in a certain part of the world
too many stories mostly real have been told and too many lives have been lost

its time we changed the perceptions and its time woman started living