Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism by Teresa Heffernan

Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism

Teresa Heffernan

240 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries. In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffer...

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