Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and cartoons gathered from popular culture, this provocative book demonstrates that the veil, the garment known in Islamic cultures as the hijab, holds within its folds a semantic versatility that goes far beyond current clichés and homoge…
"By 1930, women in Bengal were visible in the public arena with their participation in the national movement. Could this public appearance be taken as proof of their breaking with traditional gender stereotypes?"--BOOK JACKET. "The author argues that 'purdah' in early-twentieth-…