Taking in its even more recent significance and meaning to Muslim women is the fact that college aged Muslim women in the nineteen seventies were behind the reemergence of the idea of wearing the veil. To these women it represented an idea of desexualizing space. In the act of desexualizing themselves with the wearing of the hijab these women believed that they were actually gaining back power for themselves. If this is how the women themselves viewed the piece of clothing that they choose to wear the argument for it being oppressive is false. In choosing for oneself to wear an article of clothing one has all the power. Oppression cannot be claimed when one is given the choice and takes the personal initiative to make something happen. (El
