WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethnography, Family Values, Burqa
8 Sep 2016
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Do muslim women need saving h&m hijab wearing model. Hijabs can be feminist because it rejects the idea that women have the be sexually alluring and it gives women control over their bodies. Liberation lies in the choice to wear or not wear clothing. Focuses on di erence in di erent cultures in terms of the unique oppressions people face. Allows for contextual analysts of various forms of oppression as they appear in di erent cultural contexts. Focuses on ascribing a singular feminism onto a variety of di erent cultures exports western ideals of the liberated woman onto other cultural contexts example: france banning the wearing of the hijab in public schools, universities, and public buildings. Lila is an american woman of palestinian and jewish heritage (the daughter of a notable palestination scholar. Researches nationalism, media, gender politics, ethnography, and more in the middle easy. got a ph. d from harvard.
