Positive reviews are pouring in for Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies, a new textbook. An excerpt from it about the burqa:
Everywhere, such veiling signifies belonging to a particular community and participating in a moral way of life in which families are paramount in the organization of communities and the home is associated with the sanctity of women.
It’s a beautiful sentiment, and UD loves the thought of young American college students encountering it in our classrooms. There are particular communities in the world so moral as to elevate women to the status of saints. They actually sanctify them. Here in the United States, families are not quite so paramount, and indeed we fail to think of women as exclusively restricted to home and family life. Here we not only think of women as having lives outside of the domestic sphere; we let them drive cars and take jobs and walk around outside without male handlers. Clearly we have much to learn from moral communities in which women are housebound saints allowed outside in desert heat under the condition that every inch of their divinity is covered in thick black cloth.
June 28th, 2017 at 2:33PM
Somehow I suspect that if there were a Christian sect in, say, Alabama that required burqa-wearing for women, their customs would not be described in such glowing terms.
June 28th, 2017 at 5:53PM
only if it was from the Family Research Council
June 28th, 2017 at 5:56PM
https://www.mbu.edu/slh/student-life/studentconduct/dress/womens-dress-code/
June 28th, 2017 at 9:23PM
dmf…it’s a long way from a burqa, but I’d think the authors of ‘Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies’ would at least want to give them an Honorable Mention for moving in what they appear to think is the right direction…
June 29th, 2017 at 7:32AM
not that long at all, same logic at work and actually one of the more permissive branches
June 30th, 2017 at 10:40PM
I laughed out loud when I saw this notation at the bottom of the dress code page: “Powered by Beaver Builder.”
Do you suppose they know?
July 1st, 2017 at 12:51PM
JND: I doubt they know the double meaning.