Unveiled women entering an Iraqi town were read as prostitutes

Evidence

A recent study of Rowanduz, a town of northern Iraq, suggests that the ordinary unveiled peasant woman who neglected to put on a face veil when entering the community was placed by the local citizenry in the same category as the prostitute. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 240

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• ADDENDUM: Fits the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article — veiling norms in Rowanduz classify women’s moral status by dress with real social consequence.

Broader Connections

• Muslim women were pornographically depicted to commodity the Orient #exemplifies (0.65) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 409