France’s Burkini Debate

For Professor Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, the burkini embodies the achievement of a secular, integrated society. The women who wear burkinis, she said, cannot be called oppressed. They are not the women subservient to a conservative Islam; they are the women who sit on beaches unsupervised by men, enjoying their leisure time in mixed social company. Read more http://ow.ly/p5Ga303Gi57.

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