The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling

by David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila

Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. In recent years, the veil has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472455363
• ISBN13: 9781472455369
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.8"