Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World

Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress
Herausgeber: Cronin, Stephanie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The controversy about the veiling of women, particularly pronounced in recent times, and the deeper issues it represents are not new. This book examines the state-sponsored anti-veiling campaigns which took place across wide swathes of the Muslim world in the interwar period. It shows how veiling was officially discouraged and frequently ridiculed as backward, but how the anti-veiling campaigns were flawed, mostly promoted by male dominated authoritarian regimes, which, in politicising the issue, empowered opponents who used veiling as a symbol of resistance. Throughout, the book relates the significance of interwar unveiling campaigns to present day debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138687202
• ISBN-10: 1138687200
• Artikelnr.: 50451214

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Cronin is a Lecturer in Iranian History at the University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Coercion or Empowerment? Anti-Veiling Campaigns: A
Comparative Perspective Part 1: Turkey 1. From Face Veil to Cloche Hat: The
Backward Ottoman versus New Turkish Woman in Urban Public Discourse 2.
Anti-Veiling Campaigns and Local Elites in Turkey of the 1930s: A View from
the Periphery 3. Everyday Resistance to Unveiling and Flexible Secularism
in Early Republican Turkey Part 2: Iran and Afghanistan 4. Unveiling
Ambiguities: Revisiting 1930s Iran's Kashf-i Hijab Campaign 5. Dressing Up
(or Down): Veils, Hats, and Consumer Fashions in Interwar Iran 6.
Astrakhan, Borqa', Chadari, Dreshi: The Economy of Dress in Early 20th
Century Afghanistan Part 3: Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus 7.
Women-Initiated Unveiling: State-led Campaigns in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan
Part 4: The Balkans 8. Behind the Veil: The Reform of Islam in Inter-War
Albania or the Search for a 'Modern' and 'European' Islam 9. Difference
Unveiled: Bulgarian National Imperatives and the Re-Dressing of Muslim
Women, 1878-1989