lunes, 29 de abril de 2019

On question of veil or temple entry, what is essential is right to choose for oneself | The Indian Express

On question of veil or temple entry, what is essential is right to choose for oneself | The Indian Express



On question of veil or temple entry, what is essential is right to choose for oneself

Women don’t need saving; they need to be guaranteed their essential right to have a choice. The choice to pursue an unfettered education, to not be sold in marriage, to refuse unilateral divorce, to keep their bodies unmutilated, to worship, to access sanitary napkins and make reproductive decisions....

The reverence for these practices is conditioned by the given society, but often peoples’ submission to them may be a product of social conformity


Do women really need saving? In a compelling article on the subject, Lila Abu-Lughod, an American anthropologist, expresses her outrage at the opinion that the veil is a form of oppression that Muslim women need liberation from. In India, the supporters of the entry ban on women of menstruating age at the Sabarimala temple and those defending triple talaq are similarly outraged. They assert that the respective practices are rooted in distinct religious or cultural contexts; they ought to be understood and accepted as products of different circumstances and histories or as expressions of “differently structured desires” than what appears right to their condemners. They resent cultural ethnocentrism and homogenisation, and exhort that disparate religio-cultural systems be viewed through the lens of cultural relativism.

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