The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture

The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture

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This provocative book demonstrates that the veil, the garment known in Islamic cultures as the hijab, holds within its folds a semantic versatility that goes far beyond current clichés and homogenous representations. Whether seen as erotic or as romantic, a symbol of oppression or a sign of piety, modesty, or purity, the veil carries thousands of years of religious, sexual, social, and political significance. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture,Faegheh Shirazi,University Press of Florida,0813026989,American - African American & Black,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,Fashion,Islamic Studies,Literary Criticism

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