women team players have a choice about what kind of team outfit their team would get? Were they decided by women or men? Could it be argued that both the small sports bikini and the more modest style both also show something of
the power of males to dictate to women, e.g. how they should dress?
I don't know whether to be more offended by volleyball players covered in a burkini or exposed in bikini http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-beach-volleyball-burkini-bikini-photograph-moreoutraged-feminism-patriarchy-a7181331.html Burkini ban suspended: French court declares law forbidding swimwear worn by Muslim women ‘clearly illegal http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/burkini-ban-french-france-court-suspends-rule-lawforbidding-swimwear-worn-muslim-women-seriously-a7211396.html Accessed 23.2.2017 For more information see 'Promoting tolerance to schools in a time of extremism' by Dr Robert A. Bowie, In Panjwani, F., Revell, L., Gholami, R., and Diboll, M., (2018) Education and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World. Routledge: London, pp.204-216. 'The challenge of secularism' by Dr Robert A. Bowie In Athluwali, L., and Bowie, R., Oxford A Level Religious Studies for OCR: Christianity, Philosophy and Ethics,Year 2. Oxford: OUP. pp.267-296.
Dr Bowie is the Director of the National Institute for the Chrisian Education Research at Canterbury Christ Church University.
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