By tigtog on September 26, 2011
King Abdullah said his decision came because “we refuse marginalising women’s role in the Saudi society in all fields” and followed “consultations with several scholars”.
Posted in Authoritarianism, International, Law, Religion, Women | Tagged equality, Islam, Saudi Arabia, tradition, women's rights |
By Robert Merkel on August 23, 2010
There doesn’t appear to be much new election news yet, and the world goes on regardless. I held this over for a couple of days, but I think it’s still well worth discussing – RM. A court case in Western [...]
Posted in Feminism, Law, Religion | Tagged burqa, Islam, niqab |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 21, 2010
Over at Overland, Jeff Sparrow takes a look at the ridiculous controversy surrounding Rima Fakih’s victory in the Miss USA contest: For the last few weeks, we’ve learned, over and over again, why the burqa must be banned. A visible [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, International, Politics, Religion | Tagged anti-semitism, burqa, daniel pipes, Islam, Jeff Sparrow, Miss USA, modernity, Religion, Rima Fakih |
By Kim on May 16, 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban the Burqa. The French National Assembly looks set to agree. Despite all the blah about ‘Western values’, women in the West also have issues with compulsory sexualised visibility. The claim that this regulation of dress [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Fashion, Feminism, International, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Women | Tagged ban, burqa, choice, Feminism, France, identity, Islam, Liz Conor, National Assembly, Nicolas Sarkozy, secularism, sexualisation, values, visibility, West, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 4, 2009
I noticed a comment on Facebook that Obama’s speech at Cairo University to the Islamic world isn’t yet posted on the White House website. I checked and at the time of writing, it isn’t. But it’s up on Al Jazeera [...]
Posted in International, Middle East, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Bible, Cairo, Cairo University, Islam, Middle East, Muslims, peace, Politics, Quran, Religion, Speech, Talmud, Terrorism |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2008
There’s some fascinating stuff written on the Mumbai attacks by scholars of religion and global politics at The Immanent Frame – much better analysis from a blog with a specialist interest but also the ability to contextualise broadly than I’ve [...]
Posted in International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Terrorism | Tagged Blogging, democracy, global politics, Hindutva, India, Islam, Media, Mumbai, Mumbai attacks, secularism, Sociology, study of religion, terror, Terrorism, The Immanent Frame |
By Kim on August 27, 2008
It’s been 45 years since Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. Via The Global Sociology Blog, I’ve just read this op/ed by historian Stephanie Coontz – author of Marriage, A History – writing in the Guardian to mark the anniversary. [...]
Posted in Activism, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Feminism, History, Industrial Relations, Middle East, Parenting, Poverty, Religion, Sexuality, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Betty Friedan, Culture Wars, defence of marriage, equal employment opportunity, families, family values, Feminism, feminism and religion, feminist movement, gender & equality, history of marriage, human capital theory, Islam, neoliberalism, same sex marriage, sex discrimination, Sociology, sociology of the family, Stephanie Coontz, The Feminine Mystique |
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