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Striking Bangladesh Garment Workers

Where are those liberal Westerners – especially the feminists – who want to ‘empower oppressed Muslim women’ ? From Aljazeera.com: A female garment worker uses a mobile phone while coming out of a factory during her lunch hour at the Ashulia area on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 8, 2023 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

International Women’s Day

 By Iranian filmmaker and photographer Mostafa Heravi

Women Empowerment?

What is it? The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) said the Missguided advert featured "highly sexualised" images and "objectified women", while it told Boohoo to make sure its advertising was "socially responsible". The BBC's research found that on a typical UK High Street fashion retailer's website, 8% of women's modelling images were "racy", compared with 16% for online-only sites. Missguided said: "Our website reflects what appeals to the young women who love to buy from us - sassy, empowered, unafraid of what others think." In a world, "a free market," where almost everything is commodified, who has a monoply on definitions? Is sexualising and commodification of the body confined to fashion advertisement? Is it not one of the values that distinguishes "us," the "liberated", from the Other, but unites us with a commodified/sexualised Colombian or a Japanese?
" It is also a huge business... " " DKNY and Tommy Hilfiger have designed Ramadan collections, and  Dolce & Gabbana sells abayas , long outer garments, priced at more  than $2,000 apiece.