FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Collective Trauma, Hijab, Adobe After Effects

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

Fem: movie - persepolis/one hundred demons/colonial tropes/danger of a. Beginning of the islamic revolution in iran in 1979. Work in feminist history: linking the conflict in iran and the rise of fundamentalism to colonialism by the british. In barrys work the body and the traumatic sexuality is wrongly contained to the realm of the price household are the focus. Satrapi makes links between individual trauma and collective trauma. Whether the trauma happens in the private sphere of the home or the public sphere of the state should not be understood in terms of geographic politics. Is about the ethical practices of not forgetting through verbal practices and history. Satrapi has intervened as a feminist to talk about islamaphobic practices such as wearing the hijab in public. While she opposes the obligatory veiling for iranian women who do not want it, she also express how forcing women to remove their hijab is a form of violence.