Category: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues

Closing the week 39 – Featuring the 'burqa debates' in Europe 0

Closing the week 39 – Featuring the 'burqa debates' in Europe

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week featuring the European ‘burqa’ debates (incl. the Netherlands).

'Burqa ban' in Europe 0

'Burqa ban' in Europe

A court in suburban Paris on Thursday handed out fines to the first two women tried in France for violating a ban on wearing face-covering garments in public. The French case is interesting for how it deals with the question of how to impose a law on a type of veil that is considered religious by some while leaving out all references to religion and gender. Similar measures are proposed in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. Italy and Belgium already have a similar law.

Minister Donner as Mufti: New developments in the Dutch ‘burqa debates’ 7

Minister Donner as Mufti: New developments in the Dutch ‘burqa debates’

On Friday 16 September the Dutch Council of Ministers agreed to prohibit covering the face in public space. In this blog Annelies Moors explains the new developments in the Dutch ‘burqa debates’. She argues that the arguments used by the government and politicians in favor of the ban are highly ambivalent and ambiguous and that with the new proposal Minister Donner almost acts as a mufti in declaring what is Islamic and what is not.

Partnerkeuze en integratie bij autochtonen en allochtonen 0

Partnerkeuze en integratie bij autochtonen en allochtonen

In de Volkskrant van vandaag een stuk over autochtone Nederlandse ouders die liever niet willen dat hun dochter trouwt met een allochtone Nederlander (ik ga er even vanuit dat men hartstikke heteronormatief is en dat het niet bij hen is opgekomen dat tegenwoordig ook homo’s mogen trouwen).Volgens het onderzoek van het tijdschrift J/M zou 43 procent het (heel) erg vinden als een dochter zou thuiskomen met een allochtoon vriendje. 38 procent heeft er moeite mee als een zoon kiest voor een allochtone vriendin. Hier een korte beschouwing erover met onder meer een reactie op de domme column van Paul Lieben in Elsevier.

Vechten met roze bokshandschoenen – Gender, religie en kickboksen 0

Vechten met roze bokshandschoenen – Gender, religie en kickboksen

Jasmijn Rana voerde in opdracht van Forum onderzoek uit naar kickboksende Marokkaans-Nederlandse meisjes. Onlangs verscheen bij Boom Lemma Uitgevers ‘Chicks, Kicks & Glory. De betekenis van kickboksen voor Marokkaans-Nederlandse meisjes’. In dit blog geeft ze een impressie van dat onderzoek.

Closing the week 20 – Featuring Women2Drive 0

Closing the week 20 – Featuring Women2Drive

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week featuring the Saudi Arabian campaign Women2Drive.

Veil, For A Change 0

Veil, For A Change

A few weeks ago the Dutch blog and twitter community saw a (small) explosion of messages about the headscarf. What happened? A young Tunisian-Dutch lady with the pseudonym Dunya Henya expressed her feelings and experiences about people who call her names and show other types of offensive behaviour because she wears a headscarf. It appears that both women who veil and unveil are trapped in a politicized idea of the headscarf that not only has consequences in political debates and policies, but also on the streets. This politicization makes real debates with Muslims and among Muslims almost impossible because the different points of view are reduced to simple us and them categorizations. And indeed, at one point someone really has to say: I draw a line, thus far and no further!