The Negative Approach of Muslim Women

To lump together all these diverse groups of people from different cultures and backgrounds, as you say, is really quite a reductionist and essentializing in a way that doesn't acknowledge the dignity and diversity. And this issue is by no means confined to Islam. Other religions have the same problems. Nanda: Western feminists tend to focus predominantly on gender in Islam and overlook the oppressive situation of genders in other religions.