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Veils -- Social aspects.
Veils -- History.
Veils in literature.
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Veils -- Social aspects.
Veils -- History.
Veils in literature.
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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
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Out of the cloister : unveiling to better serve the Gospel / Laurene Lafontaine
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The Amish veil : symbol of separation and community / Jana Hawley
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"What is subordinated, dominates" : mourning, magic, masks, and male veiling / Jennifer Heath
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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
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After Eden : the veil as a conduit to the internal / Eve Grubin
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Virtue and sin : an Arab Christian woman's perspective / Rita Stephan
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Drawing the line at modesty : my place in the order of things / Michelle Auerbach
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On the road : travels with my hijab / Maliha Masood
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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
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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.
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