![]() ![]() But in my research I find women quite actively involved in their own veiling, and do not see it as a sign of oppression at all.”Īnd many Muslim women are not silent about this issue. “The veil is also perceived as a sign of oppression of women. “When a woman is veiled in a recognizably Muslim way, she is immediately taken as representative of all of Muslim women,” Banu says. In quite a strange twist, the glances and questions that women who wear the headscarf, in non-Muslim majority societies receive is many times in contradiction with one of the purposes of the veil, which is to not draw attention to oneself.īanu Gökarıksel, a professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke with guest host Isaac-Davy Aronson about the assumptions surrounding headscarves and the Muslim women who where them. Rarely do articles of clothing receive as much attention as the Muslim headscarf does in the 2000s. ![]()
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