Decolonizing Perceptions of the Islamic Hijab: Women’s Agency and Sustainable Consumption
The Islamic hijab occupies a contested space at the intersection of gender, religion, identity, and sustainability. For some women, it is an expression of faith and spiritual discipline; for others, it represents cultural belonging, personal dignity, or resistance to the commodification of the female body. Yet in much of the Western public imagination, the hijab continues to be portrayed through a narrow vocabulary of oppression, and exclusion. This perception raises a fundamental question: who has the authority to define women’s liberation, and why are some forms of dress celebrated as individual choice while others are treated as evidence of subordination? … Continue reading