The Hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women, is often associated with female oppression and silence - but why can't "Hijabi" women be feminists, too? In a first-person account of her experience as a young Muslim woman, University of Virginia student Attiya Latif challenges monolithic Western notions of female oppression in Islam.

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