http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2009/12/5246/ Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:20:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2009/12/5246/#comment-7615 Sara Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:49:32 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2009/12/5246/#comment-7615 Camila, I didn't intend for this post to be about what's better or worse. It was more about the general obsession with the burqa. It was also about a businessman attempting to make a profit by claiming to preserve culture--specifically, an aspect of someone else's culture and one that not only exoticizes women, but comes with a lot of baggage in terms of patriarchy, orientalism, etc. Camila, I didn’t intend for this post to be about what’s better or worse. It was more about the general obsession with the burqa. It was also about a businessman attempting to make a profit by claiming to preserve culture–specifically, an aspect of someone else’s culture and one that not only exoticizes women, but comes with a lot of baggage in terms of patriarchy, orientalism, etc.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2009/12/5246/#comment-7614 camila Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:55:12 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2009/12/5246/#comment-7614 Every tailor who stitches up a burqa profits from societies insistence upon defining women in a particular way, based on notions of respectable womanhood and controlled sexuality. Why is this worse? Just because the scale is bigger than that of the "lowly" village tailor? Every tailor who stitches up a burqa profits from societies insistence upon defining women in a particular way, based on notions of respectable womanhood and controlled sexuality. Why is this worse? Just because the scale is bigger than that of the “lowly” village tailor?

]]>