Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (Dress, Body, Culture)

by Fadwa El Guindi (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $40.57

  In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. This book draws on fieldwork, anthropology, history and original Islamic sources and aims to challenge the assumption that veiling is largely about modesty and seclusion, honor and shame.