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Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes?

In her latest piece for Aeon, Rafia Zakaria asks: Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes?   In 1820, in the Indian city of Benares, an English Baptist missionary named Smith helped to save a woman from the Hindu practice of sati, the burning of widows. He described…

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News Briefs: Week of July 24, 2010

This week, Saudi clerics seek more Muslim maids and say its okay for women to uncover their faces in the presence of burqa bans. Two French women in burqinis were refused entry into a pool, and two Muslim women in England are not allowed onto a public bus.

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