Why Do Women Choose To Veil

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The three ways in which the narratives of the women who choose to veil disrupt “hegemonic understanding of veiling that have been shaped by ‘persistent colonial images of Muslims” is by using the veil as a symbol of patriarchal oppression, also wearing it as a desire to be a good Muslim women and to present themselves as person rather then a sex object. To begin with, one of the ways in which the narratives of the women who choose to veil disrupt “hegemonic understanding of veiling that have been shaped by ‘persistent colonial images of Muslims” is wearing the veil as symbol of patriarchal oppression. The way in which wearing veil creates a symbol of patriarchal oppression is by the fact that many Muslim women wear a veil because the male individuals

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