Women's Studies 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Main Source, Hijab, Cellulite
18 Dec 2017
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Naheed mustafa: my body is my own business. Wears a hijab because she is a muslin women who believes her body is her own concern. Women who refuse to pursue attractive beauty norms are faced to ridicule and contempt. In the western world a hijab represents forced silence or radical militancy but it is just simply a women"s assertions of having physical attractiveness play no role. True equality will be held when women don"t need to display themselves to get attention and wont need to defend themselves to keep their bodies to themselves. Sandra lee bartky: foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power. Foucault talks about the body and how our society is physically controlling it ex. Sitting at a desk in school has very strict physical rules. In the panopticon prison inmates are placed in rooms that leaves them isolated and under constant surveillance heighted self consciousness"s the inmate is now policing himself while being policed.
