From Ideology to Dogma? A Discussion about Femen, Aliaa Elmahdy, and Nudity in the Arab World 

Looking at Aliaa Elmahdy’s act of protest through posting naked photos of herself on her blog, this paper studies the debates that followed. I complicate the juxtaposing between Femen’s tactics and Elmahdy’s act of nudity through engaging in questions of feminism/colonialism and feminism/conservatism. By examining articles that were written about Femen, nudity, Muslim women, and body politics, I show that the debates ran the risk of stabilizing feminism within static dogmatic beliefs. 
Author(s): Maya El Helou
Date Published: 2015

Share this post