Search Results for niqab-wearing women

...Natasha Bakht Abstract Bans or attempts to ban the niqab have traveled global circuits, with disastrous consequences for Muslim women who wear the face veil. These women have evoked a repugnance that insists on erasing them from public spaces. An analysis of niqab bans reveals that: (1...

... as well as in several African and Asian nations. Revealing the interconnections between gendered anti-Muslim legal projects across the globe, it is striking that bans are articulated as the protection of women’s equality even as they punish women who wear the niqab by imposing fines or imprisonment...

... films [where] the women only wear a niqab (as a means of defiling it)’” (Moors 2011 : 132). However, until the last scene (which I discuss later in the essay), Muna’s hijab is not remarked on by her clients. Therefore, her reasons behind wearing the hijab are ambivalent at best, and certainly seem like...

... Since I had just completed a study involving women activists of a politico-religious movement, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), I thought it would be appropriate to speak about the struggles of Islamist women to this audience of mostly hijab- and niqab-wearing female students and teachers. 2 In addition...

... their heads seemed a face shield short of a Hazmat suit. It reminded me of last month’s Channel 2 interview with a niqab-wearing woman who, holding a swaddled baby in her arms, claimed scientists had discovered the reason behind women’s premature aging: radiation of rays from men’s eyes. One woman had...