Veil: Object Lessons - Softcover

Zakaria, Rafia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150132277X ISBN 13: 9781501322778

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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From personal encounters with the veil in France (where it is banned) to Iran (where it is compulsory), Rafia Zakaria shows how the garment's reputation as a pre-modern relic is fraught and up for grabs.

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Rafia Zakaria is an attorney, a political philosopher, and a columnist for DAWN Pakistan and AL Jazeera America. She is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Aeon, Guernica, the New York Times and others. Her book The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (2015) received positive reviews in the New York Times, NPR, Ms.Magazine. Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Toronto Star, Bustle, Hindustan Times, DNA India, Indian Express, Calcutta Statesman, Dissent and The Nation.

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Can the veil be an instrument of feminist empowerment? Does veiled anonymity confer a degree of power to women? Starting from her own marriage ceremony at which she first wore a full veil, Rafia Zakaria explores how the physical reality of the veil as an object is catalyzed by the context of the wearer to produce new and unexpected meanings. Part memoir and part philosophical investigation, Veil unravels modernist assumptions that the seen is automatically the good and the free, while the veiled represents servility and subterfuge. Taking readers through personal encounters with the veil varying from France where it is banned to Iran where it is forced, Zakaria reveals how the veil's reputation as a pre-modern relic is being reconfigured to contest accepted ideas of meaning and morality. At the end, the veil emerges as an object transformed by post-modernity, whose myriad meanings can pose a collective challenge to the absolute truths of patriarchy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150132277X
• ISBN 13: 9781501322778
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien