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

• 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)