{"id":43473,"date":"2012-03-25T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43473"},"modified":"2013-11-08T01:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T06:47:02","slug":"head-covering-as-a-common-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/25\/head-covering-as-a-common-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Covering as a Common Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The burqa and headscarf are often identified as symbols of women’s oppression in Muslim countries. \u00a0In fact, head covering is a form of religious garb in many sub-cultures. \u00a0Some of these subcultures require head covering all of the time, and others only during religious rituals, but all involve this tradition. \u00a0Yet, when it comes to Muslims, the discussion often goes forward as if it is a uniquely oppressive, and uniquely Islamic, practice. \u00a0Food for thought.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Dolores R. for the link. \u00a0Found at Socialist Texan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> In the comments, Alastair Roberts suggests that it’s important to consider whether head covering is required for just women, or both women and men. \u00a0I agree.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The burqa and headscarf are often identified as symbols of women’s oppression in Muslim countries. \u00a0In fact, head covering is a form of religious garb in many sub-cultures. \u00a0Some of these subcultures require head covering all of the time, and others only during religious rituals, but all involve this tradition. \u00a0Yet, when it comes to […]<\/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":[225,15,55,2098,283,42],"class_list":["post-43473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43473","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=43473"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58204,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43473\/revisions\/58204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}