Sheth
What specific practice has been synechdochically positioned as representative of the Muslim population?
veiling
Provide the usual understanding of the reasons for veiling.
Because men make women veil.
Define in broad terms the difference between guilt and shame.
guilt
--the other is victim or enforcer. Threat is punishment. Evaluates acts.
shame
--the other as a watcher or witness. Threat is abandonment and disapproval. Evaluates character.
Explain the role of hypervisibility?
Based on hypervisibility, the black body is racialized.
Define taint
"We bear responsibility for more than what we do. We are also responsible for who we are." (312)
What is the first transition? Explain a little.
strangeness of a culture-->uncomplying person
Provide one historical, political or social reasons for veiling.
In solidarity with other women.
Explain the benefits and problems in societies that emphasize guilt.
Benefit: justice
Deficit: deficiencies of community.
Explain the impact of hypervisibility on the embodiment of the black man.
The black subject is alienated from himself, and made to always represent his race, his ancestors, and his body.
Explain the difference between doing and being: what we do and who we are.
Being and Acting. Acting we can change. Being we cannot change because we are born with it.
What is the second transition? Explain a little.
from uncompliant-->justifying colonialism
Provide another historical, political, or social reason for veiling.
Avoid prying male eyes.
For revolution work.
Explain the benefits and problems of societies that emphasize shame.
Benefit: sense of communities.
Deficiencies: Justice and fail to recognize rights of others.
What are Merleau-Ponty's two concepts of embodiment?
Body image and Body schema.
Explain the difference between wrong doing and wrongly benefitting.
Acting and doing nothing.
What is Spivak’s quote?
White men are saving brown women from brown men.
Explain Sheth's understanding of the subject. Hint: essentialist or existentialist?
The subject is always changing through her choices.
What emotion does the United States emphasize?
Guilt
Explain the difference between social/collective responsibility, and individual/personal responsibility.
What is the third transition
Explain Sheth's position on whether contexts are fully formed.
No. Contexts change.
In a rape culture, why are men tainted?