1. The Difference Muslim Woman and Man By Chenny Lu

2. What’s the opposite of…

3. Difference Theory Man Not Man

4. Difference Theory  To be an A is to be something  Not A is not something.  Signifier （ Phallus ）  To be a woman is to be not-self, not man, not the phallus.  “many men can so naturally speak in parallel constructions of their cars and their woman: It’s my house, my wife, and my money, and the government can’t tell me what to do about any of it. ”

5. Veiled Muslim Woman

6. How do the American Society consider veiling? The Veil. Unveiled

7.  Freedom  Oppression  Repression  Reclaim identity  Differentiate girl with veil and girl without veil  Absurd  Beautiful

8. Why do they veil?  Modesty (Quran)  Liberate oneself from the world  Treat oneself as precious  Protect woman from indecent thoughts and acts

9. Reconstruction of Difference  A tool of creativity – To question multiple forms of repression and dominance  A form of resistance to Western ideology and secularism  Muslim women’s freedom of choice.

10. 9/11and the Hijab Why 9/11 Made Muslim Women Wear the Hijab Second generation Muslim youth women begin to wear Hijab  Feel not a part of America  Change in friendship

11. Veiled Woman in Other Western Countries  Islamic scarf controversy in France  In 2010, France passed a law that bans the wearing of full-face covering, including but not limited to burqas and niqabs, in public.  Pakistani Women Protest French Burka Ban Pakistani Women Protest French Burka Ban

12. Category ANot A ManNot Man (Woman) ?Veiled Woman

13. How to Category Woman  Culturally  Race  Age  Education  Etc.

14. The Muslim Man

15. “Traditional Muslim Men”  Culturally confused  Excessively pious  Intrinsically violent.  White kameez and beard

16. Fort Hood Shooting Background  On Nov 5, 2009  At Fort Hood, the most populous U.S. military installation in the world  Nidal Malik Hasan  An American of Palestinian descent  A U.S. Army Major serving as a psychiatrist  13 killed and 29 wounded.

17. Fort Hood Shooting

18. Muslim Man in Western Society

19. Modern Muslim Man  Who take initiatives even if the odds are working against him.  Who have transnational consciousness and his cosmopolitan ease in navigating different cultural life worlds.

20. Muslim Programs  Amr Khaled - Life makers Anti-Drugs campaign Amr Khaled - Life makers Anti-Drugs campaign

21. Category ANot A ManNot Man (Woman) ?Muslim Man

22. Conclusion: A Positive Category  A plurality with internal structure whose elements are differentiated and differentiable and are in a significant variety of relations with each other, and that is, by virtue of this structure, coalesced as a distinguishable “something.” Such category is self-supporting, not constituted by contrast with negation.

23. Back to Start  Sun in the morning, in the afternoon…  Black dark black, light black…  Dog Chihuahua, Pug, Golden Retriever…  Vanilla ice cream different brand…