April 14, 2006
Feminism and Islam
To the Editor:
In "The Failure of Feminism" (The Chronicle Review, February 24), Phyllis Chesler says that one role of academics in the world is to "think clearly, and in complex and courageous ways." An admirable sentiment and a true observation, but how do I square this with her sweeping statement that "women in the Islamic world are treated as subhumans"?
There is no complexity, and very little clarity, in a declaration that systematically collapses the experiences of a
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