Conversations between Feminism and Islam

mothering, language, art, love, freedom, the erotic, heterosexism

the erotic: I feel like there is a trend toward divorce that is a result of feminism that reflects something that has been wrong with heterosexual marraige for a really long time. Feminists in the defense of divorce have been tryign to overcome this problem through ending marriages that have been troubled. But what if we could take the ability of Islam to teach women to protect their virginity, something Irigaray talks about, and combine that with the feminist quest to locate feamle sexual energy back in a female space, not as a tool for men or an object of male power to use to manipulate women and further consolidate male power. On some level this is a discussion fo manon woman violence. The forcing of women into situations by men through phsyical means, coercion whatever. The concpet of consent seems like something that should be addressed. How to make our ability to take our desire into our own hands more powerful. To liberate ourselves from this voyeuristic violence where we watch ourselves and others with judgement and hatred.

The concept of rape has been something I have been thinking about for a really long time. How people violate other people in order to act out something other than the explicit violation. How we cannot prevent the violation and what to do about that. where to find power in the situation.

The rape march- is that going to help? It sounds like adding trauma to trauma.