...Ashraf Zahedi This article examines the history of the veil and its changing social meanings in Iran. Embedded in the meaning of the veil is the erotic meaning of female hair. The symbiotic relations of the “cover” (the veil) and the “covered” (female hair) are central to this history. Iranian...

... and subsequent covering of female hair by using hair to alternately cover and reveal the female body. A motif of eyes raises further questions about the female body s exposure and invokes surveillance. Doubling, surveillance, mirrors, and eyes recall surrealist investigations into perceived reality as a mere...

... schools, municipally run classes on bodily grooming and beauty, online discussion forums on the topic, beauty fairs, and makeover reality television series, in 2014 over seven thousand hair and beauty salons were listed in the Istanbul Chamber for Women Hairdressers and Manicurists. 1 While...

... of interrevolutionary advertisements there was not a Tamara soap advertisement beyond 1941; however, watching its cosmetics marketing trends, by 1949 the vanishing cream was using a hybrid beauty. Her hair was concealed by a towel turban, which accented her large, heavily lined eyes, prominent nose, and olive skin. 57...

... has sacrificed a beloved part of her body (her hair) and a religious practice from which she derived strength and comfort. Despite spiting the principal by denying him the pleasures of a smooth deveiling process, Mariam’s act of shaving her head may also be interpreted as self-inflicted violence...

... their kohl eyes, hair like poetry in rising motion like flame. They’re like “Her Story Is” on the Arabian Sea at twilight in December, without seat belts at full speed to the souk —yes, like that twilit photo in Thaira’s palette, my lips like brick, and we’re grinning on a rickety wooden adventure...

..., Australia, India, China, Japan, and South Africa, emerged in the interwar period. She was a “glocal” figure meant to whet the consuming appetites of elite and upper-middle-class women.1 She shared the Modern Girl’s essential features of bobbed hair, smiling face, painted lips...

... new things for sale in the bazaar—strange, forbidden things: books, condoms, hair dryers. Now, packages of hair dye with scantily clad Swedish models adorn shop windows” (di Giovanni 2002, 254). She further illustrates this uncovering of products, hair, and bodies through human...

... a feminist position contradicting patriarchal judgment of these elements as despised. Three prominent visual components can be seen in these works: the distorted, defective body; the spiky, standing-on-end hair; and the broad mouth with sharp teeth. These images lack softness, roundness, and volume...

... of photographs I’d seen on book covers could have prepared me for the shock of her presence. The shoulder-length white halo of hair, dazzling, daring the audience with its wildly obscene purity framing a wheatberry-complexioned face, its darkness accentuated by the contrasting hair, with not a spot of makeup...

.... No sectarian connotation is apparent in this account. Rather, Hussein decries nonnormative masculinities as against Islam and the Iraqi nation: The rabble-rousers do not know these notions [of tribal loyalty to the dictator]. Those who dye their hair in green and red do not know these meanings...

... and erasures of petroleum imperialism, reminding us to consider the present through a genealogical lens. Dressed in the modern urban attire of the period, hair coiffed and eyes gazing candidly at the camera, the family members wear expressions from excitement to confusion. The teenaged Fahmi Basrawi sits...

...Zillah Eisenstein When I first met you, you already had that gorgeous head    of white hair. I always could find you in a crowd    and I was always looking. I had already read your many words about liberating ourselves. I loved that you never told me to be careful. Our dinner in Cairo...

... Iqbal Siddiqui (2001, 59 – 61) accordingly writes of the permissibility of the man to gaze at the woman prior to marriage, to see if she pleases him. The prolific Iranian cleric Murtaza Mutahhari, too, encourages the suitor to examine the face, hair, and shape of a prospective wife...

... culture, the women in Sirry’s paintings range from peasants to urban working-class women to stylish elite women. In the Classroom depicts a young, ochre-skinned teacher with short, wavy hair in a collared pink dress. Her features are bold and simplified, and her gaze directly confronts the viewer. One...

... Beauty in pen, body, dignity, dreams Amber skin and white hair Graceful steps leaping into danger Bright eyes ashing the color of night 439 UNCORRECTED PROOFS JMEWS Journal of Middle East Women s Studies 19:3 November 2023 440 Light up the dark half of the moon You will not mistake her For she looks...

..., feminine, and identifiable as Muslim.14 In mixed public spaces, women should be covered from head to toe (including the eyes) by wearing an ‘abaya that is called “on the head” (as opposed to the ‘abaya “on the shoulder In women-only public spaces, women do not have to cover their hair...

... desk. It was around 3:30 in the afternoon, and my sister and I had to wait outside in the playroom while my mother talked to the police. I looked outside through the window, and it was pitch black again . Here I started my new life as a war refugee, marked by my black hair and brown skin among...

... color of their bodies, their red masks, and their erect postures bring to mind images of superheroes in comic books, standing in formation confronting a common enemy. The sunglasses-like masks show their eyes without irises, almost like robots. Other common features such as red lips and short black hair...

... of bears often includes: “hairy bodies and facial hair; some are heavy-set; some project an image of working-class masculinity in their grooming and appearance…. Some bears place importance on presenting a hypermasculine image; some may shun interaction with men who display effeminate style.”3...