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Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress

Hardcover

Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World, Book 31

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 041571138X
ISBN13: 9780415711388
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 22 2014
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The controversy about the veiling of women, particularly pronounced in recent times, and the deeper issues it represents are not new. This book examines the state-sponsored anti-veiling campaigns which took place across wide swathes of the Muslim world in the interwar period. It shows how veiling was officially discouraged and frequently ridiculed as backward, but how the anti-veiling campaigns were flawed, mostly promoted by male dominated authoritarian regimes, which, in politicising the issue, empowered opponents who used veiling as a symbol of resistance. Throughout, the book relates the significance of interwar unveiling campaigns to present day debates.

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