ANTH 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Burqa, September 11 Attacks, Cultural Relativism
Document Summary
Article explores the ethics of the current war on terrorism. Critical discussion of the justifications for american intervention in afghanistan for liberating afghan women. Cultural explanations and the mobilization of women: news media often searched for cultural explanations or religious rituals for the. 9/11 attacks: media focused more on social aspects of afghanistan rather than the political and historical sides, women were used to justify the war and give reasoning behind anti-terrorist thought. Similar to colonial feminism in which white men interfered to save native women from native men: girls are used to symbolize change. Politics of evil: the burqa is considered the symbol for the taliban"s oppression of women in. Westerners are often surprised when "liberated" women still wear the burqa. The burqa was historically used and is not oppressive in itself. What was oppressive was that the taliban enforced a certain regional style of covering on everyone: different forms of covering do not mean a lack of agency.
