A quiet revolution : the veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America /

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"In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women througho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ahmed, Leila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Hijab (Islamic clothing) > Middle East.
Hijab (Islamic clothing) > United States.
Veils > Middle East.
Veils > United States.
Muslim women > Clothing > Middle East.
Muslim women > Clothing > United States.
Ḥijāb > États-Unis.
Voiles (Coiffures) > États-Unis.
Musulmanes > Costume > États-Unis.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
RELIGION > Islam > History.
Hijab (Islamic clothing)
Muslim women > Clothing
Veils
Muslimin
Schleier
Kopftuch
Islam
Kleidung.
Schleier.
Islam.
Muslimin.
Frau.
Hijab (islamisk klädedräkt)
Slöjor.
Muslimska kvinnor > kläder.
Islamism.
Veils.
Muslim women > Clothing.
Middle East
United States
Naher Osten
USA
USA.
Naher Osten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Islamic resurgence and the veil: from emergence to migration. Unveiling ; The veil's vanishing past ; The 1970s: seeds of the resurgence ; The new veil: converging influences ; The 1980s: exploring women's motivations ; Islamist connections ; Migrations ; The 1990s: a changing climate in America
  • After 9/11: new pathways in America. Prologue ; Backlash: the veil, the burkah, and the clamor of war ; ISNA and the women of ISNA ; American Muslim women's activism in the twenty-first century.

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