“Cuando prendas de vestir -ya fueran boolmers o sujetadores- fueron enarbolados como símbolos de la lucha feminista en las sociedades occidentales, fueron las feministas occidentales las que se encargaron de identificar el elemento y lo definieron como una posición de lucha y no, como tristemente ha pasado con el velo de las mujeres musulmanas, que fueron los hombres patriarcales y coloniales los que lo definieron como un ítem de la lucha feminista.”

Original: When items of clothing – be it bloomers or bras – have briefly figured as symbols of feminist struggle in Western societies, it was at least Western feminist women who were responsible for identifying the item in question as significant and defining it as a site of struggle and not, as has sadly been the case with respect to the veil for Muslim women, colonial and patriarchal men who declared it important to feminist struggle. <br class="br">Fuente: Women and Gender in Islam, p. 167. 1992 <br class="br">Fuente: 21 de marzo de 2017, Leila Ahmed, Islam and feminism, Maslaha http://www.islamandfeminism.org/leila-ahmed.html,