SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Neocolonialism, Postfeminism, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Polygyny: when a man has multiple female partners. British colonialism: caste identity strengthens, saving brown women from brown men . Colonized backlash: we must return to our own culture, create purity neocolonial states. Try to keep current elites in power, return to male-dominated society. Higher-status women would like to keep their isolation from society, don"t want to take on labor. Lower-status women would like to create more agency for themselves while engaging in labor. Read & bartkowski"s to veil or not to veil . The landscape of islam , competing discourses of the veil in contemporary islam . Scriptural authority: qur"an says the hijab is a sign of religious devotion. Women are responsible for protecting themselves from men"s intrinsic sexual desire. Open to scriptural interpretation: qur"an says curtain not veil , and only applied to muhammad"s wives. Veils are not uniquely muslim, were historically in use before islam was a thing. Veiling women in the sample (12 women)
