woman in hiding

This text dissects the body into its potential for sin, and so concludes that women should remain a hidden modest presence.


Women must be hidden, not attract attention, not interact, engage or err. A woman's body must be hidden away not just because of the sin that they might incite, but because it must never be exposed to their own potential sins. Women are a hidden presence. And what happens in women's bodies, and in women's heads, must also be hidden and not be revealed.

The quote is surrounded by naked women drawing attention to the parts of the body defined in the tzniut (modesty) literature as the edges of being naked - the elbow, the knee and the collarbone. some of these women are shamed and hiding, and some are defiantly promoting these borders of the body.

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