GNDS 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homa Hoodfar, Runnymede Trust
29 Nov 2017
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Topic will be assigned the week of the assignment, so only a week to prepare. Choose at least one but also could be two news articles that are relevant to the course at. The orient is not only adjacent to europe, it is the source of its greatest colony. Ideas about the east, coming from the west. Islamophobia is one of the tenants of orientalism. There are eight components to define islamophobia (defined by runnymede trust) When everyone is an expert on muslim women: Whenever i meet a person of white/european descent, i regularly find as soon as he/she ascertains that i am muslim/middle east/iranian, the veil very quickly emerges as the prominent topic of conversation. This scenario occurs everywhere, in trains, the grocery store, the laundromat, on the university campus, or at a party. - hoodfar, homa (1983). Suppression of women + backwards culture = islam vs.
