Description: Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World by Stephanie Cronin In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about womens veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies – secularism versus religious belief, individual freedom versus social or family coercion, identity versus integration – are not new but are strikingly prefigured by earlier conflicts. This book examines the state-sponsored anti-veiling campaigns which swept across wide swathes of the Muslim world in the interwar period, especially in Turkey and the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and the Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It shows how veiling was officially discouraged and ridiculed as backward and, although it was rarely banned, veiling was politicized and turned into a rallying-point for a wider opposition. Asking a number of questions about this earlier anti-veiling discourse and the policies flowing from it, and the reactions which it provoked, the book illuminates and contextualizes contemporary debates about gender, Islam and modernism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Stephanie Cronin is a Lecturer in Iranian History at the University of Oxford, UK. Table of Contents Introduction: Coercion or Empowerment? Anti-Veiling Campaigns: A Comparative Perspective Part 1: Turkey 1. From Face Veil to Cloche Hat: The Backward Ottoman versus New Turkish Woman in Urban Public Discourse 2. Anti-Veiling Campaigns and Local Elites in Turkey of the 1930s: A View from the Periphery 3. Everyday Resistance to Unveiling and Flexible Secularism in Early Republican Turkey Part 2: Iran and Afghanistan 4. Unveiling Ambiguities: Revisiting 1930s Irans Kashf-i Hijab Campaign 5. Dressing Up (or Down): Veils, Hats, and Consumer Fashions in Interwar Iran 6. Astrakhan, Borqa, Chadari, Dreshi: The Economy of Dress in Early 20th Century Afghanistan Part 3: Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus 7. Women-Initiated Unveiling: State-led Campaigns in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan Part 4: The Balkans 8. Behind the Veil: The Reform of Islam in Inter-War Albania or the Search for a Modern and European Islam 9. Difference Unveiled: Bulgarian National Imperatives and the Re-Dressing of Muslim Women, 1878-1989 Review "The books most obvious common theme is the correspondence between the need to carve put a national character and the female body politic. Anti-veiling in these countries was an opposition to Arabisation; the veild came to be seen as a cultural import that was both alien and foreign in the modernising State. By comparison, even at the height of secular nationalism in the Arab world, Stephanie Cronin notes that there were no official attempts to change "sartorial practices in any systematic way". The second theme that is pertinent throughout the book is the way in which suppositions about female dress can be contradictory. Face veils, cast as backward and submissive, wee in fact widely accepted and practised by elites in these countries prior to forceful unveiling reforms enacted during the 20th century".R.Khan , The Royal Society of Asian Affairs Review Quote "The books most obvious common theme is the correspondence between the need to carve put a national character and the female body politic. Anti-veiling in these countries was an opposition to Arabisation; the veild came to be seen as a cultural import that was both alien and foreign in the modernising State. By comparison, even at the height of secular nationalism in the Arab world, Stephanie Cronin notes that there were no official attempts to change "sartorial practices in any systematic way". The second theme that is pertinent throughout the book is the way in which suppositions about female dress can be contradictory. Face veils, cast as backward and submissive, wee in fact widely accepted and practised by elites in these countries prior to forceful unveiling reforms enacted during the 20thcentury". R.Khan ,The Royal Society of Asian Affairs Details ISBN1138687200 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2016 ISBN-10 1138687200 ISBN-13 9781138687202 Format Paperback Short Title ANTI-VEILING CAMPAIGNS IN THE Language English Media Book Imprint Routledge Subtitle Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Stephanie Cronin Publication Date 2016-04-24 Series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series Illustrations 12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white Affiliation University of Oxford, UK Pages 288 UK Release Date 2016-04-24 AU Release Date 2016-04-24 NZ Release Date 2016-04-24 Author Stephanie Cronin Alternative 9780415711388 DEWEY 305.48697 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9781138687202
Book Title: Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Item Height: 234 mm
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 408 g
Subject Area: Social Organisations
Author: Stephanie Cronin
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
