The Dualities of Traditions and Feminist Movements on the Omani Twitter Platform - Regional Programme Gulf States
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The Dualities of Traditions and Feminist Movements on the Omani Twitter Platform
by
Shaimaa Al Essai
An Extension of the Patriarchal Actuality or an Attempt to Create a Safer Space for Women?
In the age of social media, the patriarchal practice of religious and societal guardianship on women extends to the internet in the majority of the countries he Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), it is seemly an attempt to impose religious and jurisprudential views on women in the digital world. However, such attempts are rejected and resisted by feminist voices disapproving of the concept of guardianship in its neo-traditional form.