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Veil

Fadwa El Guindi

1999224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · ENGISBN 9781845208844
  • 1999Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · ENGISBN 9780585436623
  • 1999No further detail recordedISBN 9781847888969
  • 1999Berg Publishers · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781859739242
  • 2003Berg Publishers · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781859739297

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Arab East, this book challenges the European dichotomy of space into public & private, & morality into honour & shame, & shows how the notions have been mistakenly applied to Arab women's use of the veil.

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