A blogpost I would write if I weren?t busy prepping for teaching and grading papers

I would start with the example of Bill Maher “mansplaining” Mona Eltahawy on his show the other day (on how she�should be afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood). I would then briefly gloss the idea of ?mansplaining? ? noting, in passing, some of the conversational topographies of its use on the blogosphere.
I then would move on towards Saba Mahmood?s point in her�Politics of Piety that the assumption that a woman�should adopt a certain attitude towards something like ?Islam? not only relies on a particular (and usually very limited) definition of Islam, but also presumes that ?woman? has a particular set of ... More >Lab Laboratory Student