Veil
Subtitle: modesty, privacy, and resistance
By: Fadwa El Guindi.
Series: Dress, body, culture,
Publisher: Berg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Veils -- Social aspects; Islam -- Customs and practices; Muslim women -- Clothing
Description: Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Arab East, this book challenges the European dichotomy of space into public & private, & morality into honour & shame, & shows how the notions have been mistakenly applied to Arab women's use of the veil.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Veiling in perspective. Introduction; title: The veil in comparative tradition; title: Ideological roots to ethnocentrism; title: pt. 2. Dress, "libas" and "hijab". The anthropology of dress; title: Sacred privacy; title: The veil in social space; title: The veil of masculinity; title: The veil becomes a movement; title: The sacred in the veil : hijab; title: pt. 3. The resistance of the veil. Reactions to the new trend; title: Contexts of resistance; title: Veiling and feminism.