...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...

... an “us” versus “them” mentality. This article analyzes 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...

...” 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...

... Smith College 2021 anti-Muslim racisms racial marking civilizational thinking veiling Orientalia Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism as discourse is not new and cannot be reduced to a phobia. 1 It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on the idea of European...

...; Kandiyoti 1991), much intellectual discourse in Egypt gauges the country's success by the roles and actions of women. For example, religious intellectuals often argue that the veil is an important way for women to maintain cultural identity while the socioeconomic conditions of the country shift...

... brand of secular, activist feminism, in contrast to the conservative feminists' cult of domesticity, was critical of marriage and the veil, which supposedly was the most visible symbol of women's oppression, although unveiling was never officially included in the feminist agenda (Badran 1995, 23).i...

.... 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 significations are assigned to them and appropriated...

... 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...

..., the colonial construct of Islam maintains the idea of Islam as a premodern, primitive, and fetishistic religion in which women are oppressed and compelled to veil. Installing Europe as modern and Islam as premodern, the idea that Muslims are an uncivilized people provides a path for the ascendancy of whiteness...

..., and feminism is not a Western invention. In every country there are women trying to liberate themselves, and they have been fighting to liberate themselves since early history, since slavery. I am here in the United States and I think, for instance, about the veil. The veil is not restricted to Arab countries...

... occupation, for seventeen years stood by and stared at it all—first with her open piercing gaze as a girl and later from behind the veil. She is indeed the radical other of the American nationalist imaginary, in fact, of the Euro-American colonial imaginary. However, Sharbat Gula is not a new...

... occupation, for seventeen years stood by and stared at it all first with her open piercing gaze as a girl and later from behind the veil. She is indeed the radical other of the American nationalist imaginary, in fact, of the Euro-American colonial imaginary. However, Sharbat Gula is not a new phenomenon...

... women's consciousness, lift the veils off their minds, and enhance their resistance against patriarchal violence and inequalities in the family in particular and society at large. Creativity channeled in such a way paves the way for change; demolishes outmoded, reactionary antidemocratic structures...

... and Gzzz bookend your words, lodge in the throat, and pile behind the filter, clogging, expanding, and swelling, a well-timed     Guuuurrrrl! shakes them loose. Did you know Coltrane invented hide and seek? When lost, he peels away the veils and masks, looks inward and finds you. If you...

... white, white steed and panniers of riches. In veils and swathing she would be reborn as queen. Out in the ramparts the last village seared. Her parents cried out for their lost girkhild, "Ts'ai Yen,Ts'ai Yen," but the sky did not answer. Her thin jade bracelet shattered into five dazzling pieces, one...

... Ecstatic in their veil dance A nation of frogs regale Swell-throated, bass-toned One belts and rages, the others follow They fuck blissfully Trapped in their cycle Of rebirth, transient love Unprepared for higher ground And I, my mother's aging girl Myopic, goat-footed Got snagged on an unmarked trail...

... 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 2004, 148), 12 a conscious purging of"Hindu" rituals from authentic Islamic...

...,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...

... , Hoodfar Homa , and McDonough Sheila . 2003 . The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates . Toronto : Women’s Press . Anastosopoulos Vanessa , and Desmarais Serge . 2015 . “ By Name or by Deed? Identifying the Source of the Feminist Stigma .” Journal of Applied Social...

... of her later paintings makes them seem less engaged than her earlier work. Ghada Amer saw the prevalence and upsurge in the use of the veil in Egypt in the 1980s as a step backward for women, particularly in view of the modest gains made in women's emancipation prior to the consolidation of the Muslim...