>How many mannish-looking women are in power in Saudi
>Arabia?
>
>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>The notion that a contemporary woman
> > must look mannish
> > in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power
> > is frankly
> > dismaying.' Wintour continues: 'This is America, not
> > Saudi Arabia.
it was a stupid comment, though. but i think it highlights what feminists have sometimes said about the way orientalist discourse operates particularly among u.s. feminists: saudi arabian women have no sexuality, are desexualized.
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