Comments on: Tuesday Nibbles: Boobquake, Female Orgasm Brain Imaging, Chicago’s Sex IQ http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/04/tuesday-nibbles.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ms Naughty http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/04/tuesday-nibbles.html/comment-page-1#comment-8516 Ms Naughty Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:25:56 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=4624#comment-8516 Is this guy honestly saying that women in Arab states have more freedom than women from Europe and America? "Puleeeze" Maybe we do want to go there. Perhaps this Arab professor would like to provide real evidence for his claim. Is this guy honestly saying that women in Arab states have more freedom than women from Europe and America?
“Puleeeze”
Maybe we do want to go there. Perhaps this Arab professor would like to provide real evidence for his claim.

]]> By: violet http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/04/tuesday-nibbles.html/comment-page-1#comment-8512 violet Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:35:53 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=4624#comment-8512 this comment was sent to me by a Professor of Arab history who wanted to remain anon but okayed my adding their comment to this post specifically regarding the BBC story on 'the virginity industry' -- check it out: # Puleeeze--this has been around for EVER and hardly qualifies as news... The NYT reported on it in two years ago (Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet, "Muslim Women and Virginity; Two Worlds Collide, 11 June 2008), and a JSTOR search for "Arab virginity surgery " turns up 51 items dating back to 1835. What it does is play on a certain opposition (that Euro-American liberalism offers women "freedoms" that "traditional" culture doesn't) that totally obscures another opposition (that Arab states signed off on the CEDAW and guarantee women economic rights, which the US--which never passed the ERA and therefore cannot sign off on the CEDAW--can't). You really DON'T want to go there--trust me! And certainly you know SF's own Nadine Naber, with her "Arab American Feminities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore" published in Feminist Studies 32:1 (Spring 2006)--? this comment was sent to me by a Professor of Arab history who wanted to remain anon but okayed my adding their comment to this post specifically regarding the BBC story on ‘the virginity industry’ — check it out:

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Puleeeze–this has been around for EVER and hardly qualifies as news…

The NYT reported on it in two years ago (Elaine Sciolino and Souad
Mekhennet, “Muslim Women and Virginity; Two Worlds Collide, 11 June
2008), and a JSTOR search for “Arab virginity surgery ” turns up 51
items dating back to 1835.

What it does is play on a certain opposition (that Euro-American
liberalism offers women “freedoms” that “traditional” culture doesn’t)
that totally obscures another opposition (that Arab states signed off
on the CEDAW and guarantee women economic rights, which the US–which
never passed the ERA and therefore cannot sign off on the
CEDAW–can’t). You really DON’T want to go there–trust me!

And certainly you know SF’s own Nadine Naber, with her “Arab American
Feminities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore” published in
Feminist Studies 32:1 (Spring 2006)–?

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