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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Table of Contents     More Content       Subjects     Veils -- Social aspects.     Veils -- History.     Veils in literature.     Browse Catalog       by title:      The veil : women wri...       by call number:      391.41 V427     Search the Web     Veils -- Social aspects.     Veils -- History.     Veils in literature.       MARC Display

The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / edited by Jennifer Heath. University of California Press, c2008. Call #: 391.41 V427 Subjects Veils -- Social aspects.   Veils -- History.   Veils in literature. ISBN:  9780520250406 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520255180 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  xiv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  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 Lafontaine -- The Amish veil : symbol of separation and community / Jana 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 -- Burqa and bikinis : Islamic dress in newspaper cartoons / Kecia Ali -- Lampooning the veil from home -- Dress codes and modes : how Islamic is the veil? / Aisha Shaheed -- From veil to veil : "what's in a woman's head is more important than what's on it" / Sherifa Zuhur -- Epilogue. Other authors:  Heath, Jennifer. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Non-Circulating Reference 391.41 V427 Non-circulating Shelved in Reference Add Copy to MyList

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