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I don't know what the discussion was about, but you might find it interesting that a lot of feminist research has been conducted in these countries where women are attaining legal rights they didn't have before.

I personally know two women, one from my uni and one from Standford, who conducted ethnographies on middle eastern women and their views on how they are reconciling their traditional modes of life with their newly achieved legal statuses (although I forget which countries they went to). anyway, what I've learned from them and a couple professors who study this kind of thing, is that they are finding women, when given the choice, want to wear their burkhas as a symbol of resistance against what they view as western imperialism (or I should say encroachment on their tradtitional values -- since imperialism might be too abrasive for some people and mask the logic of such women's responses).

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