The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / / edited by Jennifer Heath |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
Disciplina | 391.4/1 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HeathJennifer |
Soggetto topico |
Veils - Social aspects
Veils - History Veils in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
american muslim women
amish veil community controversial cultural studies dress code emotional expression of the sacred gender studies gospel groundbreaking hasidic women hijab identity india islam islamic dress male veiling medieval europe middle east modesty mourning muslim women patriarchy religious studies sensual separation seven veils sociopolitical trauma veil veiling wearing a veil wedding veil womanhood women |
ISBN |
1-282-77231-7
9786612772313 0-520-94160-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Her Royal Body the Robe Was Removed: The Blessings of the Veil and the Trauma of Forced Unveilings in the Middle East -- 2. Shattered Vessels That Contain Divine Sparks: Unveiling Hasidic Women's Dress Code -- 3. Going the Whole Nine Yards: Vignettes of the Veil in India -- 4. Out of the Cloister: Unveiling to Better Serve the Gospel -- 5. The Amish Veil: Symbol of Separation and Community -- 6. "What is subordinated, dominates": Mourning, Magic, Masks, and Male Veiling -- 7. I Just Want to Be Me: Issues in Identity for One American Muslim Woman -- 8. "She freed and floated on the air": Salome and Her Dance of the Seven Veils -- 9. "He hath couerd my soule inwarde": Veiling in Medieval Europe and the Early Church -- 10. Nubo: The Wedding Veil -- 11. After Eden: The Veil as a Conduit to the Internal -- 12. Virtue and Sin: An Arab Christian Woman's Perspective -- 13. Drawing the Line at Modesty: My Place in the Order of Things -- 14. On the Road: Travels with My Hijab -- 15. Purdah, Patriarchy, and the Tropical Sun: Womanhood in India -- 16. The Veil: From Persepolis -- 17. Concealing and Revealing Female Hair: Veiling Dynamics in Contemporary Iran -- 18. That (Afghan) Girl! Ideology Unveiled in National Geographic -- 19. Burqas and Bikinis: Islamic Dress in Newspaper Cartoons -- 20. Dress Codes andModes: How Islamic Is the Veil? -- 21. From Veil to Veil: "What's in a woman's head is a lot more important than what's on it" -- Epilogue -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778080603321 |
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What kind of liberation? [[electronic resource] ] : women and the occupation of Iraq / / Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt ; foreword by Cynthia Enloe |
Autore | Al-Ali Nadje Sadig |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.48/8927567090511 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PrattNicola Christine |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Iraq - Social conditions
Women's rights - Iraq Women in politics - Iraq Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Women |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century american history
21st century iraqi history activism bush administration gender studies government and governing growing unemployment human condition international policy iraq iraqi women activists iraqi women islam middle east middle eastern politics muslim new iraq ngo workers political president bush president george w bush scarce resources seclusion sectarianism united states of america violence war and gender war in iraq war zone warfare womens rights activists womens rights |
ISBN |
1-282-77240-6
9786612772405 0-520-94217-5 |
Classificazione | MK 3100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. IRAQI WOMEN BEFORE THE INVASION -- TWO. THE USE AND ABUSE OF IRAQI WOMEN -- THREE. ENGENDERING THE NEW IRAQI STATE -- FOUR. THE IRAQI WOMEN'S MOVEMENT -- FIVE. TOWARD A FEMINIST AND ANTI - IMPERIAL IST POLITICS OF PEACE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789000303321 |
Al-Ali Nadje Sadig
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Who is knowledgeable is strong [[electronic resource] ] : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 / / Cyrus Schayegh |
Autore | Schayegh Cyrus |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : Univerity of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 955.05 |
Soggetto topico | Science and civilization |
Soggetto non controllato |
1900
1950 20th century biomedical sciences civic class differences class demographics economic power everyday life global concerns global contexts historical iranian culture iranian modernists iranian society middle class middle east modern history modern iran modern problems modern science modern stresses nonfiction revolution science scientific knowledge social distinctions social reform western context world history |
ISBN | 0-520-94354-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1900-1950 -- Part 2. Medicalizing Modernity Interactions between the Biomedical Sciences and Modernity in Iran, 1900-1950 -- Conclusion -- Appendix First-Time Advertisements by Physicians in the Tehran Daily Ettelā'āt, 1927-1939 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790185703321 |
Schayegh Cyrus
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Women with mustaches and men without beards [[electronic resource] ] : gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / / Afsaneh Najmabadi |
Autore | Najmabadi Afsaneh <1946-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.42/0955/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Iran - Social conditions - 19th century
Women - Iran - Social conditions - 20th century Gender identity - Iran - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
academic beauty standards cultural history cultural studies education feminism gender identity gender presentation gender roles gender studies history iran iranian marriage middle east middle eastern modernity modesty motherhood revolution romance scholarly sex and gender sexuality womanhood womens education womens issues |
ISBN |
1-4237-1488-1
9786612357565 0-520-93138-6 1-282-35756-5 1-59875-550-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? -- Epilogue: feminism and its burden of birth. |
Altri titoli varianti | Gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783314903321 |
Najmabadi Afsaneh <1946->
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Year of the locust [[electronic resource] ] : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / / Salim Tamari |
Autore | Tamārī Salīm |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina |
940.4/15092
B |
Soggetto topico |
World War, 1914-1918 - Palestine
World War, 1914-1918 - Jerusalem World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Middle East World War, 1914-1918 Soldiers - Jerusalem Turks - Jerusalem |
Soggetto non controllato |
arab soldier
arab world arab autobiography biography bombs conscripted soldier diary empire gender history ihsan hasan al turjman imperialism jerusalem journal mashriq memoir middle east military service military mongolia nationalism nonfiction ottoman empire ottoman soldier palestine palestinian history palestinian mandate partition politics pow camp prisoner of war regional politics russia seige siberia soldier suez turkey veteran war world war one ww1 |
ISBN |
1-283-27789-1
9786613277893 0-520-94878-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine -- The Diary of Ihsan Turjman -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781212603321 |
Tamārī Salīm
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Year of the locust [[electronic resource] ] : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / / Salim Tamari |
Autore | Tamārī Salīm |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina |
940.4/15092
B |
Soggetto topico |
World War, 1914-1918 - Palestine
World War, 1914-1918 - Jerusalem World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Middle East World War, 1914-1918 Soldiers - Jerusalem Turks - Jerusalem |
Soggetto non controllato |
arab soldier
arab world arab autobiography biography bombs conscripted soldier diary empire gender history ihsan hasan al turjman imperialism jerusalem journal mashriq memoir middle east military service military mongolia nationalism nonfiction ottoman empire ottoman soldier palestine palestinian history palestinian mandate partition politics pow camp prisoner of war regional politics russia seige siberia soldier suez turkey veteran war world war one ww1 |
ISBN |
1-283-27789-1
9786613277893 0-520-94878-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine -- The Diary of Ihsan Turjman -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806970603321 |
Tamārī Salīm
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