Sex and the Muslim Feminist

On refusing to equate sexual pleasure with freedom.

Instead of taking on the thorny business of how sex itself replicated patriarchy in complex ways, sex was made into a commodity.

The anointing of sex positive feminism has over time permitted the transformation of a deep and complex feminist movement into one that helps brand magazines and sell lingerie to women who can imagine themselves emancipated based on the consumption of sex. In becoming the central metaphor for liberation, it has eviscerated critiques of imperial overtures abroad and encouraged a deliberate deafness toward all the dialects of empowerment that do not translate themselves into its language. Its biggest casualty has been the stereotyping and exclusion of Muslim feminists, whose frontline struggles against terror, against religious obscurantism, and against the weight of patriarchal domination have all been relegated to a position of inferiority, based on their refusal to affirm that freedom essentially and centrally means the freedom to have sex.



https://newrepublic.com/article/123590/sex-and-the-muslim-feminist

The New Republic is mostly a neo-con magazine, but I think the article is very interesting....