Posted in Culture, Religion, Sexuality, tagged Muslim women, Polygamy on 31 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written for and (soon to be) cross-posted at Muslimah Media Watch
As we all know, pop culture can’t get enough of ‘the mysterious Orient’ and its ubiquitous exotic women. The 80s New Romanticism movement is a case in point. Known for its exaggerated and often outrageous attitudes to fashion and music, the [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on 30 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Now that I’ve come back from camping on the Dorset coast and tucking into obscene amounts of giant oysters and crab, allow me to proudly announce that you’re now looking at the latest contributor of Muslimah Media Watch! Trumpets, please.
You will find more MMW-Cycads cross-postings beginning this week, so watch this space.
Posted in Feminism, Religion, tagged Muslim women, Religion on 25 March, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This week, The Guardian is running a series of articles on whether or not religion is good for women. I suppose if whether you speak from first-hand experience or from news stories and statistics, you will find that religion with its roots firmly planted in patriarchy is never going to be good for women. Savitri [...]
Posted in Malaysia, Post-colonialism, Sexuality, tagged film, Malaysia on 19 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Malaysia, vacuous horror flicks and Hollywood copycats rule the local cinemas. They promise nothing but instant sensory gratification yet still manage to attain box-office success. In many of such films glamorous personalities compliment the glitzy and oh-so aspirational KL scene. They’re good-looking, they’ve got star quality, who cares if they’ve got no talent, but [...]
Posted in Feminism on 19 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ciderpress is hosting the first ever blog carnival dedicated to our Asian sisters:
This is a call for submissions for the first Asian Women Blog Carnival as well as suggestions for themes and hosts for the future carnivals.
This carnival is intended to focus on Asian women. The definition of Asian, within the scope of this carnival, [...]
Posted in Books, Religion, Sexuality, tagged menstruation on 18 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the fairly early days of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, dissing each other with crude language was all the rage. Alexandra Cuffel’s new book Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (2009, University of Notre Dame Press) shows how late antique purity laws and biological theories help provide a repertoire of filth from which the rival [...]
Posted in Media, Religion, tagged Muslims in Britain, Conference on 15 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s article at The Indepedent, “Why Muslims will not fight for freedom”, on the absence of Muslims at the recent convention on modern liberty in London was a disconcerting sign. A sign many would read, and not Alibhai-Brown alone, as complete apathy for the greater good:
I suspect the key reason so few showed up [...]
Posted in Feminism, Malaysia, Religion, tagged Conference, Malaysia, Muslim women, Religion on 15 March, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Any self-respecting news editor would know that significant, if not historical events require pretty polished reporting. The star-studded Musawah conference last February on Islamic family law reforms was one such significant event. Organised by Malaysia’s very own Sisters In Islam (SIS), it was something to be proud of. But reading Malaysian journalist Siti Nurbaiyah Nadzmi’s [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on 11 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hello everybody. You might’ve noticed that postings have ground to a halt the last two weeks or so. There are reasons. The first being that I’ve just been accepted to do an MA in Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London this coming September. Hooray. I’ve spent the last few [...]
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