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A history of women's seclusion in the Middle East : the veil in the looking glass
- Author
- Chamberlin, Ann.
- Title
- A history of women's seclusion in the Middle East : the veil in the looking glass / Ann Chamberlin.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Haworth Press, c2006.
- Description
- xiv, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001664.html
- Uniform series
- Haworth innovations in feminist studies.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-288) and index. Paperback.
- Contents
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- Seclusion at work
- A return to the Taliban
- Ancient veiling
- Artistic representation
- Written evidence
- Domestic architecture
- Architecture : the sacred
- In the sacred storehouse
- Sacred pegs
- "HRM"
- Balance in the paleolithic : sacred time, space, and persons
- Evolution
- Biology
- The clan
- Environment for seclusion
- Trade
- Capital and land
- The British parallel : enclosure
- Liberation of the individual
- The hunger for the individual
- The urban Mesopotamian clan
- How Mesopotamian culture effected individual alienation
- The personal god
- Cities of power
- Vernacular gender
- Slavery
- Honor
- Masscult
- Women's tongue
- For men only
- The fate of seclusion in the west
- Conclusion.
- Kinsey subjects
- Women--Middle East. Status of women--Middle East. Changing role of women. Social conditions--Middle East.
- ISBN
- 0789029839 (hard : alk. paper) 9780789029836 (hard : alk. paper) 0789029847 (soft : alk. paper) 9780789029843 (soft : alk. paper)