Have I already told you about the article I read on Islamic women who chose to wear the veil because it gave them social sanction to take much more freedom? A woman from a conservative family, for instance, who got to go to college because "she's a good girl." Some of those women were getting to do things that women never did, and then ran into white Western feminists who told them that wearing the veil was anti-feminist. It's so hard to translate sometimes.
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Date: 2007-06-06 05:08 pm (UTC)