Author: Teresa Heffernan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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 Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.
Veiled Figures
Author: Teresa Heffernan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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 Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442624922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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 Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.
The Speaker
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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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International Law Reports
Author: Elihu Lauterpacht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521807753
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Includes decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Prosecutor v. Blaskic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521807753
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Includes decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Prosecutor v. Blaskic.
A Grammatical Comparison of Malay and Tagalog
Author: Cecilio Lopez
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Category : Indonesian language
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Category : Indonesian language
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Zoology of Egypt
Author: John Anderson
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Zoology of Egypt. Vol. I-. Pl. Maps Sq. F.: Reptilia and Batrachia
Author: John Anderson
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Category : Amphibians
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Languages : en
Pages : 570
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The Literary World
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Current Opinion
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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The Bookman
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains
Author: Henry Baker Tristram
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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