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In November 2011, the Egyptian blogger Alia al-Mahdi shocked the online community of the Middle East after posting a nude photo. Al-Mahdi claimed that wanted to challenge the Egyptian patriarchal structures in general and the negative sense that has been that women are mere sexual objects in particular.
Interestingly, Egyptians who identify themselves raphael mazzucco photography as liberal and secular activists were the first to disapprove Alia and a picture, making it even before more conservative factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood did. These people claimed that the act did not make sense and that had caused immense damage raphael mazzucco photography to the liberal / secular issue in Egypt, especially because of the proximity of the parliamentary elections. The debate also turned to the question of feminism and women's raphael mazzucco photography rights. raphael mazzucco photography Many said they undress was not a valid feminist tactic and it only reinforced the image of women as a sexual object to be consumed and give pleasure to men. Other disagreed saying that the photo had raised a debate on women in Egyptian society, raphael mazzucco photography particularly with regard to sexuality and nudez.Após receive death threats, al-Mahdi Kareem Amer and his partner had to leave Egypt. raphael mazzucco photography
On December 20, 2012 new photos of al-Mahdi began to circulate, this time posing naked alongside members also bare the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen. The title of the photos is "The Apocalypse of Muhammad." raphael mazzucco photography In one of the images, al-Mahdi carries the flag of Egypt and the words "Sharia is not a constitution" written on her body with black ink, alongside two naked activists Femen. In another photo, al-Mahdi is holding a book on his crotch with the word "Qur'an" written on it. The reaction was instantaneous since the photos were quite shared raphael mazzucco photography on Twitter and Facebook. By collaborating with Femen, al-Mahdi is giving support to various misleading speeches that are used against Egyptian women. Despite the fact post a picture of herself naked to be seen as a way to challenge the patriarchal norms of society, working with a group that can be defined as neo-colonial feminist should be seen as a problem.
The Femen is a movement based in Ukraine raphael mazzucco photography that was established in 2008 in order to protest raphael mazzucco photography the growing sex industry in the country. The movement soon branched out and expanded their protests to other gender issues, as known oppression that women suffer at the hands of religious institutions.
FEMEN - is new Amazonas, able to take down the foundations of patriarchal world with his intellect, sex, agility, causing disorder, neurosis and bringing panic to the world of men. FEMEN - is the ability to sense the world's problems, beat him with the purest truth and audacity FEMEN - is a hot chest (sic), a cool head and clean hands. FEMEN - is mobilizing every cell of your body in a relentless raphael mazzucco photography struggle against centuries of slavery of women!
FEMEN - is a new ideology of female sexual protest, making use of extreme topless and direct action campaigns. FEMEN - is the sextremismo serving to protect women's rights, democracy guard dogs attacking patriarchy in all its forms: the dictatorship, the Church, the sex industry.
The first time I heard of it was when they Femen protested in Paris, where they dressed in burqas and stripped soon after to show they were naked beneath the protest muçulmanas.Esse clothing was especially directed to the Muslim community. The Femen claimed that the veil and the burqa should be seen as oppressive in nature and encouraged raphael mazzucco photography Muslim women to "break free" begins to undress. This is evident both in their protests as the slogans they use, for example "Muslim women! "Desnudem up. The Femen has also made misleading statements about the Arabs, raphael mazzucco photography like this: ". As a society we have not been able to eradicate our Arab mentality towards women" The slogan and the statement raphael mazzucco photography show the vision raphael mazzucco photography that militancy and ideology of Femen preach about Arab and Muslim women.
What struck me at the time was to see that the Femen works with the basic premise that women's liberation is directly linked to what women wear. This is not a new idea, and in fact has been the basis of much of Western feminism. One of the most striking examples of this mentality is the way that the French State is Algeria, as a backward country because the women there wear the veil. This type of reasoning automatically leads to the conclusion that in order for the country to progress, women who wear the veil should take them to thereby "free". As a feminist, this speech with implicitly colonial connotation seemed extremely worrying. It seemed to me that we would resuscitate the endless deb