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The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / / edited by Jennifer Heath
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
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2008
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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
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  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
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Who is knowledgeable is strong [[electronic resource] ] : science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 / / Cyrus Schayegh
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  
Berkeley, : Univerity of California Press, c2009
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Women with mustaches and men without beards [[electronic resource] ] : gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / / Afsaneh Najmabadi
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->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
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Year of the locust [[electronic resource] ] : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / / Salim Tamari
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  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
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Year of the locust [[electronic resource] ] : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / / Salim Tamari
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  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
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