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...light more than just the supposed Republican re-takeover of our national government. Brown’s ascension to the Senate in spite of his turn as a centerfold is an indication of our culture’s severe double standard in terms of the treatment of men and women. One can’t help but recall the ridicule former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin underwent for being, among other things, a former beauty queen. When a girl can pay for her education without having to prostitute herself, and when a woman can run for a prominent public office without...
When asked if the end result will be worth all the time and effort she has put into the project, Reyzl R. Geselowitz ’10, a Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations concentrator writing her thesis on the role of women in ancient Israel, had two separate answers...
...Urban Policy, and a Muslim woman herself. This is the going attitude toward the Islamic veil in France these days. Since 2004, French girls have been banned from wearing headscarves in state schools, and in January of this year, a French parliamentary commission recommended a partial ban on women wearing Islamic face veils in government offices, schools, on public transportation, and in hospitals. Such a ban would be discriminatory toward Muslim culture, and the implications of its reasoning would be far-reaching and undemocratic. Currently in drafting, the bill that would enact these changes should not be passed...
...veil, such as the burqua, physically limit a woman’s existence. It would be much harder to play soccer, go shopping or do other vigorous activities when so covered. In a society where the superficial changes brought by the feminist revolution are highly resonant—fifties women were hemmed in by those tight circle skirts, but now we can all wear pantsuits!—the burqua can seem inherently opposed to "girl power...
...takes the view that all veils are physically limiting in some way—and there are highly popular types of Islamic veils that seem to limit nothing but shaking your hair in the wind—who is Amara, or anyone else to say that these women are limiting themselves because of oppression and are thus "victims"? Women all over the world change their appearance in ways to reflect the opinions of other people, whether they be men, other women, or their families, and we certainly don’t see all these other forms of shape-shifting...