I'm really enjoying your analysis in this thread, thank you so much. I think you're absolutely right that veil bans are treating women as a symbol of family modernity/Western-ness that has to be enforced, that's a really powerful observation. And yes, I do take your point that it's a matter of bodily and general personal autonomy if people would rather not think about their choices of clothes very much.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2015-06-23 11:23 am (UTC)