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Veiled figures : women, modernity, and the spectres of orientalism / Teresa Heffernan.
LIBRA PN56.V44 H43 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heffernan, Teresa, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veils in literature.
- Veils--Social aspects.
- Veils.
- Veils--History.
- Muslim women in literature.
- Islamic literature--Christian interpretations.
- Islamic literature.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University Of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Islam, the Enlightenment, and the veil
- The great whore of Babylon: cosmopolitanism and racialized nationalism
- Two western women venture east: Lady Annie Brassey and Anna Bowman Dodd
- The Great War and its aftermath: militarized citizens, (un)veiled bodies, and the nation
- The burqa and the bikini: veiling and unveiling at the turn of the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1442637234
- 9781442637238
- OCLC:
- 927381744
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