Ivan Simic 'The Veil Lifting Campaign in Yugoslavia'
03 December 2014, 5:00 pm鈥12:00 am
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Room 433, 果冻影院 SSEES, 16 Taviton St, LONDON, WC1H 0BW
This seminar will explore the consequences of imposing the category of 鈥渂ackwardness鈥 on聽Muslim women in Yugoslavia, arguing that it provided the communist government and its activists with the tools for radical interventions into Muslim women鈥檚 lives, culminating with the veil lifting campaign.
The seminar will tackle the positioning of the Muslim community leadership who supported new measures, the fervent attempts of the activists to 鈥渕odernize鈥 and unveil the Muslim women, and ultimately the severe punishments imposed by the legislators.