This article explores the professional, personal, and feminist interpretations and experiences of wearing of the hijab as a symbol of religious expression by two Muslim psychotherapists practicing in Johannesburg. By privileging these interpretations, the authors aim to demonstrate the need for questioning and resisting hegemonic representations of the hijab that have been appropriated by various international political and religious institutions for their own agendas, often to manipulate women’s sense of agency. With Western societies banning the hijab and Islamist societies making it compulsory, the agency of the wearer of the hijab is undermined. The inclusion of the voices of Muslim women, whether they wear the hijab or not, is necessary to redress the constraints on the agency of Muslim women that has emanated both from those in the West, and from within the Muslim community itself.

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非殖民化头巾：两位穆斯林心理治疗师的解释性探索

本文探讨了两位在约翰内斯堡执业的穆斯林心理治疗师对佩戴头巾作为宗教表达象征的专业、个人和女权主义的解释和体验。通过赋予这些解释特权，作者旨在证明需要质疑和抵制各种国际政治和宗教机构为自己的议程而挪用的头巾霸权表述，这些表述往往是为了操纵女性的能动性。随着西方社会禁止戴头巾，伊斯兰社会强制要求戴头巾，这削弱了戴头巾者的能动性。包括穆斯林妇女的声音，无论她们是否戴头巾，对于纠正来自西方的穆斯林妇女的能动性的限制是必要的，