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Peruvian Women Once Wore Burka-Like Attire as Cloaks of Rebellion
(www.ancient-origins.net)
Cool article.
Its kind of been a strand in eastern feminism for a long time now, choice about whether or not people get to look at you. If I remember rightly, before the Persian revolution there was also a class element.
Women who wore them were described as “insolent vipers” by one poet
The Insolent Vipers would make a kickass band name.
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