The veil
Subtitle: women writers on its history, lore, and politics
By: edited by Jennifer Heath.
Contributors: Heath, Jennifer.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780520250406; 9780520255180
Subjects: Veils -- Social aspects.; Veils -- History.; Veils in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jennifer Heath; title: 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; title: Shattered vessels that contain sparks of the divine : unveiling Hasidic women's dress code / Barbara Goldman Carrel; title: Going the whole nine yards : vignettes of the veil in India / Roxanne Kamayani Gupta; title: Out of the cloister : unveiling to better serve the Gospel / Laurene M. Lafontaine; title: The Amish veil : symbol of separation and community / Jana M. Hawley; title: "What is subordinated, dominates" : mourning, magic, masks, and male veiling / Jennifer Heath; title: I just want to be me : issues in identity for one American Muslim woman / Pamela K. Taylor; title: "She freed and floated on the air" : Salome and her dance of the seven veils / Shireen Malik; title: "He hath couerd my soule inwarde and myn heed with a veyle" : veiling in medieval Europe and the early church / Désirée G. Koslin; title: Nubo : the wedding veil / Sarah C. Bell; title: After Eden : the veil as a conduit to the internal / Eve Grubin; title: Virtue and sin : an Arab Christian woman's perspective / Rita Stephan; title: Drawing the line at modesty : my place in the order of things / Michelle Auerbach; title: On the road : travels with my hijab / Maliha Masood; title: Purdah, patriarchy, and the tropical sun : womanhood in India / Jasbir Jain; title: The veil : from Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi; title: Concealing and revealing female hair : veiling dynamics in contemporary Iran / Ashraf Zahedi; title: That (Afghan) girl! : ideology unveiled in National geographic / Dinah Zeiger; title: Burqas and bikinis : Islamic dress in newspaper cartoons / Kecia Ali; title: Dress codes and modes : how Islamic is the veil? / Aisha Lee Fox Shaheed; title: From veil to veil : "what's in a woman's head is a lot more important than what's on it" / Sherifa Zuhur; title: Epilogue.