Veil [electronic resource] : modesty, privacy, and resistance / Fadwa El Guindi.
El Guindi, Fadwa.
1999
GT2112 .E5 1999eb
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Title Veil [electronic resource] : modesty, privacy, and resistance / Fadwa El Guindi.
Author El Guindi, Fadwa.
ISBN 0585436622 (electronic bk.)
9780585436623 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, 1999.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 242 p.) : ill.
Call Number GT2112 .E5 1999eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 391.4/3
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and indexes.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Dress, body, culture.
Available in Other Form Veil.
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pt. 1. Veiling in perspective. Introduction
The veil in comparative tradition
Ideological roots to ethnocentrism
pt. 2. Dress, "libas" and "hijab". The anthropology of dress
Sacred privacy
The veil in social space
The veil of masculinity
The veil becomes a movement
The sacred in the veil : hijab
pt. 3. The resistance of the veil. Reactions to the new trend
Contexts of resistance
Veiling and feminism.

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