The above picture points to the eroticization of the veiled Muslim woman that Abu-Lughod discusses i
The above picture points to the eroticization of the veiled Muslim woman that Abu-Lughod discusses in “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” Such a sexualization of Muslim women is a part of what scholars have called “gendered Orientalism” (Abu-Lughod 88).As Abu-Lughod writes of gendered Orientalism in the 19th century, “The depictions took two forms: women of the Orient were either portrayed as downtrodden victims who were imprisoned, secluded, shrouded, and treated as beasts of burden or they appeared in a sensual world of excessive sexuality” (Abu-Lughod 88).The veil seems to combine these two aspects of “gendered Orientalism”–representing in the West both Muslim women’s bondage and their sensuality. Both representations of Muslim women fail to show their full complexity, interior life, and humanity(?).http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/muslim-woman-allowed-wear-veil-in-trial-but-must-remove-it-for-evidence-29582855.html-JAG -- source link