عنوان

The veil: women writers on its history, lore, and politics

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

Eng

Title Proper

The veil: women writers on its history, lore, and politics

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley, CA

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

edited by Jennifer Heath

Text of Note

Introduction / Jennifer Heath -- From her royal body the robe was removed: the blessings of the veil and the trauma of forced unveilings in the Middle East / Mohja Kahf -- Shattered vessels that contain sparks of the divine : unveiling Hasidic women's dress code / Barbara Goldman Carrel -- Going the whole nine yards : vignettes of the veil in India / Roxanne Kamayani Gupta -- Out of the cloister : unveiling to better serve the Gospel / Laurene M. Lafontaine -- The Amish veil : symbol of separation and community / Jana M. Hawley -- "What is subordinated, dominates" : mourning, magic, masks, and male veiling / Jennifer Heath -- I just want to be me : issues in identity for one American Muslim woman / Pamela K. Taylor -- "She freed and floated on the air" : Salome and her dance of the seven veils / Shireen Malik -- "He hath couerd my soule inwarde and myn heed with a veyle" : veiling in medieval Europe and the early church / Desiree G. Koslin -- Nubo : the wedding veil / Sarah C. Bell -- After Eden : the veil as a conduit to the internal / Eve Grubin -- Virtue and sin : an Arab Christian woman's perspective / Rita Stephan -- Drawing the line at modesty : my place in the order of things / Michelle Auerbach -- On the road : travels with my hijab / Maliha Masood -- Purdah, patriarchy, and the tropical sun : womanhood in India / Jasbir Jain -- The veil : from Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi -- Concealing and revealing female hair : veiling dynamics in contemporary Iran / Ashraf Zahedi -- That )Afghan( girl! : ideology unveiled in National geographic / Dinah Zeiger -- Burqas and bikinis : Islamic dress in newspaper cartoons / Kecia Ali -- Dress codes and modes : how Islamic is the veil? / Aisha Lee Fox Shaheed -- From veil to veil : "what's in a woman's head is a lot more important than what's on it" / Sherifa Zuhur -- Epilogue

Entry Element

Social aspects ، Veils

Entry Element

History ، Veils

Entry Element

، Veils in literature

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AU Heath, Jennifer