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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marnia Lazreg |
| ISBN: | 9780691138183 0691138184 9780691150086 0691150087 |
| OCLC Number: | 302099344 |
| Description: | x, 156 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Letter one: modesty -- Letter two: sexual harassment -- Letter three: cultural identity -- Letter four: conviction and piety -- Letter five: why women should not wear the veil. |
| Responsibility: | Marnia Lazreg. |
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Long or short, sternly pinned or silkily draped, the Islamic veil is the most contentious religious symbol today, in the West as much as in the Muslim world... [Lazreg] feels passionately that Muslim women should not wear the veil, as both her mother and grandmother obediently did... [A] useful and timely counterpoint. -- Economist Marnia Lazreg's discussion of the infamous piece of cloth, however, is different from most other treatises on the issue. It is personal and passionate... As such, it is a highly relevant intervention into the debate on the veil. -- Julia Droeber, Times Higher Education Sociologist Lazreg, an authority on Algeria, has issued a call for frank and unmediated conversation among Muslim women. In a series of four letters that assert the major points of contention--modesty, sexual harassment, cultural identity, conviction, and piety--she lays bare the issues, apologetics, and real lives of veiled Muslim women in an unprecedented fashion... A provocative text that demands a response. -- Choice Questioning the Veil is an excellent examination of an extremely controversial and divisive piece of clothing, written with unimpeachable authority, and a valuable source of information for anyone seeking to achieve an informed perspective on the subject. -- Rabbi Dr Charles H Middleburgh, Charles Middleburgh blog Read as the author declares it to be, not a scholarly treatise, but a very personal inquiry, Marnia Lazreg's book is a rich and committed contribution to the current debate on the veil. -- Irina Vainovski-Mihai, Insight Turkey Read more...
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