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Article: 'Mad woman in the Burqa': Muslim women as exemplar feminists.
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- Hecate
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- May 1, 2006
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No letters please from British women who have taken the veil and claim it's liberating. It is their right in a tolerant society to wear anything, including rubber fetishes.... (1)
Dilemma
By way of introduction I would like to pose a (somewhat longwinded) dilemma. (2)
There is a constituency of Muslim women that, as Polly Toynbee notes, state that Islam and in particular the adoption of Islamic dress, is liberating for women. Whether expressed as adherence to an immutable scriptural code or dubbed 'Islamic feminism', these ideas, held by Muslim women, exist.
This jars against conventional depictions of Muslim women as oppressed and ...