hiyabBy Afsaneh Najmabadi -  The meaning of a Muslim woman’s veil is both multiple and historically contingent, its meaning has been subject to callenges and negotiations to which Muslim women themselves have been, and have become even more so today, a major party. As much as for some Muslim women the veil has become an oppressive requirement, for others its observance is what makes it possible to be part of modern public sociability.  See full text (pdf format)  -  Source: Monthly Review

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