Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World:Gender, Modernism and the Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

"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"--

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Cronin
• Assisted by: Stephanie Cronin (Editor), Cronin Stephanie (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 22.04.2014
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780415711388
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71138-8
• Dimensions (packing): 16.5 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm
• Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series; Durham Modern Middle East and > 31; Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, women's rights history, secularism and religion, Middle Eastern modernity, state policy on clothing, interwar social reform, comparative anti-veiling campaigns, Islamic dress codes