PHIL 1010 Lecture 13: Lecture 13

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

Document Summary

Five arguments commonly made in favour if burqa: Argument one: security requires people to show their faces. Argument two: the kind of transparency and reciprocity which is proper to relations between citizens is imbedded by covering part of the face. Argument three: burqa is a symbol of male domination that symbolizes the domination of women problem: society is saturated with symbols of male domination that treat women as objects sex magazines, plastic surgery etc. Again: then the glaring inconsistency with applying the argument- the proponents of the ban do not propose to ban all objectifying objects. Argument four: women wear burqa only because they are coerced. Forcing women to do anything is wrong and illegal.