WGS101 Lecture 10: Week 10 - Part 1

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS101
• Professor: Felice Lifshitz

Document Summary

Overblown, one-sided discourse regarding muslim women in muslim-majority countries. You are not empowering women when you are speaking for them/saying they are oppressed when they are really not. Most muslim women when interviewed largely maintain that they are not oppressed. Interfering in their lifestyle unnecessarily causes more harm than good and take power away from these women. Janet jakobsen gender in the production of religious and secular violence . It hardly seems like feminist solidarity like the idea that religion is the source of such violence. To do so can more tightly suture the connection between islam and patriarchal violence. Projects like the honor diaries are the cause of such violence because then men with violent tendencies use religion as an excuse to propagate this violence without consequences. Religions with male god crate moods and motivation that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority.