Publication Type
Blog Post
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2017
Abstract
The essentialist and dichotomizing battle over who is ideologically, morally, indeed humanly, more advanced (the West or the rest), has for centuries been fought over women’s bodies. A few hundred years ago the rationale for imperialism in the case of the British Raj included the idea of white men saving brown women from brown men. The post 9/11 invasion of Afghanistan was also partly justified as a war between good and evil, with the US representing all that is good in terms of democracy, human rights, and, significantly, women’s rights.
Discipline
Gender and Sexuality | Religion
Research Areas
Sociology
Publisher
Cogitatio Press
Citation
RAO, Aliya Hamid, "Veiled lives? Muslim women, headscarves, and manufacturing Islam" (2017). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 2557.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2557
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2557
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