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...Natasha Bakht Abstract Bans or attempts to ban the niqab have traveled global circuits, with disastrous consequences for Muslim women who wear the face veil. These women have evoked a repugnance that insists on erasing them from public spaces. An analysis of niqab bans reveals that: (1...

..., and a legally authorized eviction from political community apparent in such diverse legal projects as the Muslim travel ban in the United States and the banning of full-face veils (see Razack 2008 ; forthcoming ). Muslims have been targeted by white supremacist shooters in Quebec City, Canada and Christchurch...

... queen (I think of Draupadi here) Lies down beside the smoking parts. In Pune, when I was a child, We lived on Ganeshkind Road. In the wedding season 10 MERIDIANS 10:2 I often saw a pale horse bearing a bridegroom, His face veiled in flowers. I willed her to sit beside him Clutching the horse's flanks...

... and it is really irritating. But I feel that the veil gives me so much freedom that they cannot see. It gives me complete freedom to deal with people through my thoughts and not through a face or a body. I want people to treat me as a human being and not as an object of beauty or ugliness. You can tell how...

... of the male onlookers, involving body language, eye contact, type of veil, clothing worn underneath the veil and the manner in which the veil itselfis fanned open or closed at strategic moments to lure or to mask, to reveal or to conceal the face, the body, or the clothing underneath. (Naficy 2003, 140...

... at the street below. Frederico spots her from his rooftop, grabs his camera, and edges closer. He watches her lift her veil to catch a better glimpse of the departing guests and then gets a full and stunning view of her face when she looks up at him. Instead of taking a photograph, as he usually does, however...

... their entry into the hitherto debarred public/political space. My engagement with the text is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on experiences pertaining to the female body: menstruation, childbirth, and veiling. The poets speak of how personal choice is denied and political and national...

... for spreading understanding. Women are to be fully covered, wearing face veils with unadorned skin (no cosmetics are used). (Mccloud 1995, 61) Though this may be the popular representation of the group, it is important to consider the differences between representation and the actual practices and beliefs...

... of the Primitive . Boston : Four Seas . Hugo Leon . 1989 . “ The Black Girl and Some Lesser Quests .” Shaw Offstage: Shaw Review 9 : 161 – 84 . Itayemi Phebean , and Dove-Danquah Mabel . 1975 . The Torn Veil and Other Stories . Ibadan, Nigeria : Evans Brothers . Kroll...

...: “Haunted eyes tell of an Afghan refugee’s fears.” As her nameless face stared at the reader, this girl from a refugee camp near Peshawar in Pakistan became iconic of the Afghan people’s helplessness under the Soviet occupation (1979–1989). Captured by American photojournalist Steve McCurry (McCurry...

... ; Kandiyoti 1991 ). Informed by Enlightenment and Orientalist perspectives, Turkish nationalist secularists held Islam in its traditional garb and public expressions, particularly women’s veiling and segregation, responsible for the oppression of women in society. This Orientalist approach would perfuse...

... by the green background and the green of her dress that peeked from underneath the tatters of her red shawl. The caption read: "Haunted eyes tell of an Afghan refugee's fears." As her nameless face stared at the reader, this girl from a refugee camp near Peshawar in Pakistan became iconic of the Afghan...

... in the United States. Women are very decorated. And this is a veil; when she covers her face with makeup, it's like covering her face with a piece of cloth. So the veil is universal, and we have to fight against it transnationally. Also against female circumcision. The frigidity of women is universal because...

... her when she kneels down and prostrates in prayer. The same reasoning is advanced by those who insist that women must wear the veil to avoid tempting men with their exposed hair and faces. In the reasoning of those who argue for the seclusion of women and their exclusion from performing various...

...,ransnationalis2m003, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 54-6] ©2003 by WesleyanUniversityPress. Allrights reserved. 54 II Mirror mine you weave my backwards reflections but now the silent image vanishes from the center the songs of our veils mangled in a necklace singular and circular knotting through marriage Here you cut apart from...

... Muslim women express their identities as modern Muslim women, manifestations of which can be seen in the adoption of new veiling practices (the shift from burqato abbaya)n, a marked Arabization of everyday vocabulary, that is, replacing Farsi words with Arabic ones in day-to-day conversations (lrfani...

... of the intifada, the role of women in the intifada, anti-Arab racism in the lesbian community, [and] homophobia in the Palestinian community.” The flyer features an artist’s rendering of a young girl with the word intifada printed across the lower portion of the image. The girl’s face expresses a wincing grin...

... are creative. Animals, when faced with disaster, are creative to save their lives. So, creativity is universal; it is related to anything that has [Meridians:feminismr,acet,ransnationalism2006, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-21] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 1 life In the decades-old debates about women...

... and openness have masked the fact that she is not there for his consumption, that her face is turned toward Africa, toward Haiti. The doudou is a skin she removes, like the fabled soukougnan, to reveal the pain and rage of Creole femininity. In so doing she shares a “covetous solar gaze” with other people...

...” versus “them” mentality. I analyze the discourse of empire, a metaphor that has been used time after time to construct a mythical and menacing Other. In contrast, the portrait of Asian women in cinema and television news as traditional, veiled, and inhabiting a separate sphere adds to this representation...