Islamic Women Oppression Essay

During studying about religion, sexuality and right, everyone in class was asked to discuss an article written by Jelie Lucass-MA, “what is your tribe? Women’s struggles and the construction of Muslimness.” Suddenly, I came up with a question to my professor, Dr. Coeli Barry, “are all Muslim women facing the same oppression?” She answered, “No! Or maybe!” Her further explain was about the difference oppression on Muslim women based on their historicized and geographical. Then, I recalled my memory about the discussion about sex before marriage with my peers in Cambodia. No one agreed with the idea of Cambodian women can have sexual intercourse with their partners before getting married, and they challenged that Western women can have sex with their partners before marriage due to their free culture. Spelman (1988, p.52-53) claims that no woman is subject to any form of oppression simply because she is a woman; which forms of oppression she …show more content…
Therefore, women in Muslim societies lead very different lives and suffer different degrees of oppression and enjoy different rights. It is needed to see the “tribe” and the origin that they are from to understand the real rights or oppression they are facing. (Example of the fundamentalists in Algeria, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan)

- Choo, HY and Ferree, MM 2010, ‘Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: a Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities’
The authors mentioned about the inequality of women with color, white women, black and white men, and show that oppression is not the singular process of inequality. Inequality in intersectionality approach refers to the interaction between gender, race, and other categories of difference in individual lives, social practices, institutional arrangements, and cultural ideologies and the outcomes of these interactions in terms of