SOSC 4352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hijab, Sexual Objectification

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 4352
• Professor: Dena Demos

Document Summary

Multiculturalism and the limits of toleration: jeremy webber. The main focus of this article is how larger cultures, usually the dominant ones (held by the majority) seek to control the cultures of minorities, and what is considered tolerable. Jeremy webber emphasizes two examples throughout this paper; female genital mutilation/circumcision and the wearing of the hijab head scarf. 269) there really is no one true way to actually tolerate every single culture or group of people, seeing as culture is something that is ever changing, and so are our understandings of it. Webber uses the example of toleration of the hijab. Canadian) media, it was often noted that women wearing hijabs were inferior; that they had to (cid:862)o(cid:271)ey(cid:863) the (cid:373)e(cid:374) withi(cid:374) their (cid:272)ulture. Mosle(cid:373) women wearing the hijab stood against this stereotype stating that women wear the hijab by choice, and in their defence against the sexual objectification of the woman body within the dominant popular culture.