This recommendation comes from Zach Mag. After over six months of Taliban rule in Swat Valley in Pakistan, the area is free again. This journal article from the NYT describes how the burqa was used to control the female population. If you have not yet read Nadia Elkadi's comments about the the trousers controversy in Sudan, this article makes a very good companion piece. What do you think of the use of clothing as a way to keep women oppressed? Is the requirement of wearing the burqa more substance or more symbolic?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/world/asia/23burqa.html?_r=1&ref=world
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