Posts Tagged ‘burka’

• Black Polyester: Nuance and Niqab?

  October 27th, 2010 “I wanted to own the article of clothing that was being talked about,” Jonas Otterbeck says, explaining his...

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• Missionary Rhetoric: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness

  July 6th, 2010 When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, a feminist dystopia set in a world run by a totalitarian...

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• Fair and Balanced: the BBC Burqa Debates

  July 15th, 2009 In the wake of the Sarkozy-Burqa fiasco, last week the BBC radio aired a show on the Women’s...

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• How Do You Soak Yours: Burqa Apparently Soaked in Blood

  July 13th, 2009 This originally appeared on Safiya’s blog Outlines. A lot of the discourse of Muslim women both here and...

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