The National Catholic Reporter just can't take the popularity of the church veil...and its new popularity...among young women.
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Head covering is thinly veiled patriarchy | National Catholic Reporter
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I find it interesting that the author-- a "feminist"-- is herself imposing inherited patriarchal interpretations (i.e. male authority) on other women's choices, as if she believed that contemporary women lacked the power to create and assert their own meanings. I mean, if young women today understand veiling as a "countercultural sign of their devotion to the church" rather than a symbol of enslavement, how can a feminist dispute that interpretation without invalidating the women's agency? I see this as the greater contradiction!
ReplyDeleteBtw, I don't consider myself a feminist. And I do appreciate a historical argument; I'm just... intrigued... by what I see as a tension within this article.