The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367193019
• ISBN13: 9780367193010
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.7"