eBook details
- Title: Westernised Women & Silenced Ciphers: Postcolonial and Diasporic Representations of Muslim Women (Critical Essay)
- Author : Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 233 KB
Description
"The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women." Laura Bush On August 26, 2000 the New York Times reported on Asiyah Andrabi, a "conservative Muslim and radical feminist" who "makes her demands for equal rights for women from behind the all-enveloping burqa." Andrabi, who is also described as a militant fighting for the liberation of Kashmir, seems to compound what the writer evidently sees as the irreconcilable contradiction between feminism and Islam, women's rights and the veil, Muslim women and militancy. The representation of Muslim women as militant or potentially violent is rare. The idea of Islam as threatening is usually reserved for Muslim men, while women are perceived as an object of pity or empathy. Underlying Laura Bush's statement is this more familiar paradigm of women as victims of fundamentalist Islamic tradition, implicitly brown women in need of rescue by civilized people throughout the world.