Hijab for Girls

Hijab for Girls

The Hijab refers to both the head-covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Islamic styles of dress in general. There is no uniform approach to terminology for Islamic dress. HIJAB is an Arabic word, originally referring to a curtain or divider, which later came to refer to Islamic dress in general, but is now commonly metonymically reduced to the headscarf.

In the recent years, Islamic dress has been emerged as surviving sites of the contention in the relationship between Muslim communities and the State. Specifically, the wearing of Islamic headscarves by women in public places has raised questions about secularism, women’s rights and national identity. It has always been seen by the Western feminist as oppressive and as a symbol of a Muslim woman’s subservience to men. As a result, it often comes as a surprise to Western feminists that the veil has become increasingly common in the Muslim world and is often worn proudly by college girls as a symbol of an Islamic identity, freeing them symbolically from neo-colonial Western cultural imperialism and domination. For well over two decades, Muslim women have been positioned in the Australian popular media in opposition to the values of liberal democracy and the feminist agenda.
Muslim women, as if the act of “unveiling” will somehow bestow the “equality” and “freedoms” that Western women enjoy. While ‘HIJAB debates’ occur in various guises in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and somewhere else, questions of gender, race and religion have a particular pertinence in Australia, where a combination of recent events has generated unprecedented public and scholarly attention on sexual violence, ‘Masculinity protection’, and ideas of the nation. It was against this historical backdrop that the Australian popular media developed an interest in the HIJAB-the incorrigible veil worn by some Muslim women.

Hijab for Girls

Hijab for Girls

Hijab for Girls