Where in the World?
Theorizing the Other
The Veil
Identity
Misc.
100
This religion's adherents are called Muslims.
What is Islam?
100
He coined the term "Orientalism."
Who is Edward Said?
100
The hijab is used as a cover these three parts of the body.
What are the head, hair and neck?
100
She asks why you keep asking her about her identity.
Who is Nawal El Saadawi
100
These three (of five) issues are frequently ignored by the press when talking about women’s issues in the Middle East.
What are education, safety / security, water, food, healthcare?
200
The only non-Muslim country in the Middle East.
What is Israel?
200
They are one of the seminal authors of postcolonial feminism
Who is Spivak or Mohanty?
200
This veil is only used in Afghanistan.
What is the burka?
200
She struggled with Standard Written Arabic was enforced as the “real” &“correct” Arabic, “whereas what [she] spoke was an inferior, corrupt, incorrect Arabic”
Who is Leila Ahmed?
200
This was accused of being a "smokescreen for colonialism."
What is [Islamic] fundamentalism?
300
Has largest Muslim population.
What is Indonesia?
300
They are depicted as victims of male control and of traditional cultures.
Who are third-world (or global south) women?
300
Name three reasons women may wear a veil.
What are religion, laws, cultural, class, political, or fashion influences on women.
300
These three (of seven) identities played a significant role in the lives of Ahmed and El Saadawi.
What are the identities of location, language, religion, gender identity, politics, culture, ethnicity,
300
List two (of four) issues feminist movements should consider when organizing.
What is local, inclusive, draw on traditions, and/or use indigenous resources
400
These four Middle Eastern countries do not speak Arabic.
What are Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel?
400
It is a feminist discourse and practice articulated within an Islamic paradigm.
What is Islamic feminism?
400
This country's women removed the veil in the 1920s in defiance & feminist resistance.
What is Egypt?
400
This writer stated "the question is why knowing about the "culture"of the region, and particularlyits religious beliefs and treatment of women, was more urgent than ex- ploring the history of the development of repressive re- gimes in the region and the U.S. role in this history."
Who is Lila Abu-Lughod?
400
Complete the Al-Ani (2002) quote: The use of the veil shifts
What is “according to different historical and political contexts” ?
500
These three terms of identification are frequently mixed up by the media.
What are Arab, Middle Eastern & Muslim?
500
This theory asserts that racism, colonialism and the effects of economic, political, and cultural colonialism are inextricably intertwined with the gendered realities of non-white & non-Western women. This term criticizes the West for essentializing women's issues and imposing a universal view of feminism.
What is post-colonial feminism?
500
This country's women put on the veil in resistance to the France.
What is Algeria?
500
For Ahmed, this is structured differently between how it is practiced at home by women and differs from how it is structured by men in the public mosques and studied by scholars.
What is Islam?
500
This organization was founded in Egypt in 1982 by Nawal El Saadawi in order to promote Arab women's active participation in social, economic, cultural, and political life.
What is Arab Women's Solidarity Association United