{"id":11026,"date":"2009-07-22T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11026"},"modified":"2012-10-19T01:37:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:37:02","slug":"are-burkas-more-oppressive-than-the-male-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/22\/are-burkas-more-oppressive-than-the-male-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Burkas More Oppressive Than The Male Gaze?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liz C. sent us a link to a segment of The Daily Show featuring Kristen Schaal and John Stewart (aired July 1st).\u00a0 They discuss Sarkozy’s ban on burkas<\/a> and, in doing so, question whether the burka is truly oppressive and whether American fashion is, in contrast, oh-so-liberating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><\/td>\nMon – Thurs 11p \/ 10c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burka Ban<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
www.thedailyshow.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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We covered Heelarious here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also this confession<\/a>echoing Stewart and Schaal’s conversation.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liz C. sent us a link to a segment of The Daily Show featuring Kristen Schaal and John Stewart (aired July 1st).\u00a0 They discuss Sarkozy’s ban on burkas and, in doing so, question whether the burka is truly oppressive and whether American fashion is, in contrast, oh-so-liberating. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,55,2095,2094,778,1776,85],"class_list":["post-11026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-politics","tag-intersectionality","tag-nation-france","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11032,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions\/11032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}