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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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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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