Headscarf Issue Should be Evaluated in Context of Basic Human Rights and Not Justified from Theological Perspective
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Headscarf Issue Should be Evaluated in Context of Basic Human Rights and Not Justified from Theological Perspective

Seyma Akin, who teaches at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the Necmettin Erbakan University in Konya, Türkiye, speaks on the history and politics of women’s clothing in Türkiye.

Physiological and Archaeological Evidence Rewrites Assumptions About a Gendered Division of Labor in Prehistoric Times
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Physiological and Archaeological Evidence Rewrites Assumptions About a Gendered Division of Labor in Prehistoric Times

There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity.

Ravana’s Women: How Warrior Women are Forgotten in Hindutva’s Version of Ramayan
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Ravana’s Women: How Warrior Women are Forgotten in Hindutva’s Version of Ramayan

The Ramayana is projected as a battle between men—Ram and Ravana. Women here play a subordinate role; the victim is Sita. In doing so, we forget the other warrior-women we encounter in the epic, of whom at least four are on Ravana’s side, defending him.