Repressed foundational female figures drive Islam’s need to veil women.

Evidence

Famed philosopher Slavoj Zizek argued in 2012 that Islam needs to repress women because women such as Hagar and Khadija played such important roles as foundational but later repressed figures for Muslim self-understanding. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 565

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does Zizek’s psychoanalytic-Freudian genealogy of Islamic women’s repression actually explain veiling, or does it rehearse Orientalist essentialism while claiming to deconstruct religion?