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This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling- of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects-has existed in countless cultures and religions from time immemorial. Today, veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. But veiling was a practice long before Islam and still extends far beyond the Middle East. This book explores and examines the cultures, politics, and histories of veiling. Twenty-one gifted writers and scholars, representing a wide range of societies, religions, ages, locations, races, and accomplishments, here elucidate, challenge, and/or praise the practice. Expertly organized and introduced by Jennifer Heath, who also writes on male veiling, the essays are arranged in three parts: the veil as an expression of the sacred; the veil as it relates to the emotional and the sensual; and the veil in its sociopolitical aspects. This unique, dynamic, and insightful volume is illustrated throughout. It brings together a multiplicity of thought and experience, much of it personal, to make readily accessible a difficult and controversial subject. Contributors: Kecia Ali, Michelle Auerbach, Sarah C. Bell, Barbara Goldman Carrel, Eve Grubin, Roxanne Kamayani Gupta, Jana M. Hawley, Jasbir Jain, Mohja Kahf, Laurene Lafontaine, Shireen Malik, Maliha Masood, Marjane Satrapi, Aisha Shaheed, Rita Stephan, Pamela K. Taylor, Ashraf Zahedi, Dinah Zeiger, Sherifa Zuhur

Veils --- Veils in literature. --- Headgear --- Hijab (Islamic clothing) --- Social aspects. --- History. --- american muslim women. --- amish veil. --- community. --- controversial. --- cultural studies. --- dress code. --- emotional. --- expression of the sacred. --- gender studies. --- gospel. --- groundbreaking. --- hasidic women. --- hijab. --- identity. --- india. --- islam. --- islamic dress. --- male veiling. --- medieval europe. --- middle east. --- modesty. --- mourning. --- muslim women. --- patriarchy. --- religious studies. --- sensual. --- separation. --- seven veils. --- sociopolitical. --- trauma. --- veil. --- veiling. --- wearing a veil. --- wedding veil. --- womanhood. --- women.

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"The Scimitar and the Veil is a history and overview of Muslim women and their great accomplishments. It portrays over fifty extraordinary Muslim women, from the birth of Islam in the seventh century CE through the nineteenth century, including the women who played a crucial role in Muhammad's life, as well as scholars of the Hadith, saints and mystics, queens and warriors, rebels and concubines, and outstanding poets, musicians, and storytellers." "Based on sources ranging from Swahili lore to Persian pageant plays to Muslim feminist writings to the explorations of Western scholars of Islam, The Scimitar and the Veil is written in a poetic, energetic, contemporary, and sometimes humorous style that will appeal to a broad range of readers."--Jacket.

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Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.

Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Afghanistan --- Holocaust --- Cambodia --- Extraordinary Rendition --- United States --- United Nations --- Gender --- Syria --- Latin America --- Bosnia --- Execution --- Iran --- Enforced Disappearance --- Kashmir --- Guatemala --- Iraq --- Mass graves --- Transitional Justice --- Reparation --- International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances --- UN Convention --- Transnational Justice --- Rwanda --- Exhumation --- Burma --- Half widows --- Genocide --- Historical Memory --- Human Rights --- Rohingya --- Healing --- International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Pr --- Disappeared persons. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism. --- Genocide.

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Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Social policy --- Politics --- Human rights --- Polemology --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Equal opportunities --- Gender --- Healthcare --- War --- Government policy --- Politicians --- Stereotypes --- Images of women --- Book --- Empowerment --- Women's rights --- Experiences --- Afghanistan

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Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists-most with extended experience inside Afghanistan-examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future.

Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century. --- Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century. --- Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century. --- Women --- Social conditions --- afghan women. --- afghan. --- afghanistan. --- agency. --- al qaeda. --- anthropology. --- burqa. --- community development. --- domesticity. --- education. --- empowerment. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- food security. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- health. --- islam. --- justice. --- marriage. --- middle east. --- muslim women. --- nonfiction. --- orientalism. --- peace. --- poetry. --- politics. --- prisoners. --- prostitution. --- religion. --- religious fundamentalism. --- religious women. --- rural. --- sex work. --- social policy. --- social science. --- sociology. --- urban. --- war on terror. --- war. --- women. --- womens studies.