Prompt 1:
What can Abu-Lughod and Addison’s work combined tell us about the experiences of Muslim women, feminism, militarization, and empire? How might we take what we learn from works into our upcoming engagement with Disney’s Aladdin?
Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, American Anthropologist, Vo. 104, No. 3, (Sep. 2002) Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others on JSTOR
Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disneys Aladdin Saving Other Women from Other Men: Disney’s Aladdin | Erin Addison (baixardoc.com)
Prompt 2:
What can we learn from the Totally Radical Zine about the actual experience of Muslims with Islamophobia? How might knowing these experience, either first-hand or through reading, inform the way we approach media like Disney’s Aladdin?
Totally Radical Muslims Zine, Vol. I (Islamophobia, A Bitchin Zine)
Totally Radical Muslims Zine, Vol. II (Karbala Fired Resistance Stories)
Totally Radical Muslims Zine, Vol. III (Hubb: Queer Muslim Love Stories)
