Breaking Boundaries
Women have come a long way in the past few decades, but are we there yet?
Our mother's generation relentlessly questioned the status quo. Women today continue to bend, break and reject boundaries in all areas of both public and private life. It is, we think, a generational mantra.
See Waheeda Malullah's mesmerizing photographs in "Cover" where she shapes, reshapes and reinvents a pair of blue jeans and a vivid green curtain into a hijab.
Rejoice with the Aboriginal Australian athlete Cathy Freeman her Olympic-gold-medal victory as well as her victory over discrimination.
See Shen Ling’s series of intimate portraits which depict urban Chinese women exploring dating and sexuality.
See how young women today are redefining what it means to be a woman.
Join the conversation.
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Are boundaries a thing of the past? Boundaries are made to limit, stop and curtail, but this courageous generation of women has been breaking, transgressing and defying them in ingenious ways.
Recent statistics show that young women attend high school and college in numbers overwhelmingly higher than ever before. Even in the workplace, women are leaders: Women today represent 70 percent of the workforce in developed countries and 60 percent in developing countries!
"Boundaries are made to be broken," young women have told us time and time again. Join the conversation and tell about boundaries you have already broken and about the boundaries you have yet to overcome.
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Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:05 AM
Actually I think if we want to make the future it is better to not start with fighting...I think it is the human who made the boundaries( any kind of it) and they exist until we believe they exist, and If we don't believe them there aren't...
Let's just passing the boundaries...look at the past and go a head!
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Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:22 AM
مهما كسرت الحدود تظل هناك حدود تعيش بداخل الانسان نفسه ويستحيل ان يتجاهلها الضمير
هناك فنون راقية تترجم معنى الانسان فهل نفهمها ؟؟؟ |
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Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:54 AM
Waheeda Mulallah's photographs in "Cover" are incredible. http://imaginingourselves.imow.org/pb/Story.aspx?G=1&C=0&id=1492&lang=1 They reveal not only a talented photographer, but an aware, ample thinker. It is an honor to hear a woman who actually wears a hijab speak about it. Because what can I, a Western woman, know or understand about the hijab?
The most I can say is that it looks like a boundary that divides what is private from what it public, what is personal from what belongs to the community. It is a clear spatial as well as gender boundary, and it is not my place, it is my opinion, to decide whether it is a boundary to break or not. It is, as Waheeda shows, a boundary that ought to be re-shaped, reconceived and re-viewed. But all of these re’s should be done by the observant Muslim women themselves—women who actually understand the hijab, have a relationship with it, speak from within and behind it. Not by women like me. And definitely not by men.
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Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:37 PM
Hello, What a wonderful site - a great inspiration and education. best from australia Joannie |
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Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:40 AM
women have been educated since the beginning of time -- they have educated themselves when formal schooling was denied to them. they've passed skills and knowledge down through generations in such inspiring ways. they've taught each other about how to grow food, make clothing, do home healthcare. i look at myself and my peers and i see that many of these skills have been lost. yah, i can name philosophers that i learned about in school, but i can't even cook my own food! in breaking boundaries, what else gets broken? |
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Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:14 AM
I think barriers to education are the greatest boundaries to be broken for women.
In my immediate family, I'm the first woman to get a college education. My grandmother only attended school until the 8th grade before she dropped out to work, and my mother was married by 19 and never had a chance to get a degree. Now I'm attending graduate school and I cherish my education more than anything.
In many areas of the world, women and girls' education is still devalued. My challenge now is determining how to use my education and privilege to break educational boundaries for other women around the world. |
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