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Responsibility as Representatives: A Need for Honest Reflection


Posted by sharrae on 01 May 2012 / 1 Comment
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In our roundtable on the Foreign Policy “sex issue” I spoke about the responsibility one has when representing, speaking or acting on behalf of one’s own community.   Among other reactions to that issue, Mona Eltahawy’s article garnered various responses from Arab women, expressing their disapproval of Eltahawy’s claim to speak on behalf of Arab women. […]

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Some Issues with Foreign Policy’s “Sex Issue”: Part One


Posted by Krista Riley on 30 Apr 2012 / 0 Comments
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So I’m sure that pretty much everyone has, by now, seen Foreign Policy magazine’s recent “Sex Issue,” which looks at issues related to gender, sex, and politics in various countries.  The article that’s gotten the most attention is Mona Eltahawy’s piece “Why Do They Hate Us?,” in which Eltahawy writes about the many forms of […]

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Dreyfuss and Iran’s “Women Commandos”


Posted by faith on 20 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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If you’ve been following coverage of the fallout from the recent Iranian elections, you have been bound to see images of women in the streets as part of protests against the election results. In fact, the Western media has put a feminine face on much of its coverage of what is happening in Iran connecting […]

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