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
Out of the cloister : unveiling to better serve the Gospel / Laurene M. Lafontaine
The Amish veil : symbol of separation and community / Jana M. Hawley
"What is subordinated, dominates" : mourning, magic, masks, and male veiling / Jennifer Heath
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 / Désirée G. Koslin
Nubo : the wedding veil / Sarah C. Bell
After Eden : the veil as a conduit to the internal / Eve Grubin
Virtue and sin : an Arab Christian woman's perspective / Rita Stephan
Drawing the line at modesty : my place in the order of things / Michelle Auerbach
On the road : travels with my hijab / Maliha Masood
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
Burqas and bikinis : Islamic dress in newspaper cartoons / Kecia Ali
Dress codes and modes : how Islamic is the veil? / Aisha Lee Fox Shaheed
From veil to veil : "what's in a woman's head is a lot more important than what's on it" / Sherifa Zuhur
Epilogue.