Teresa Heffernan

Veiled Figures

Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781442637238
• ISBN-10: 1442637234
• Artikelnr.: 44029871

Autorenporträt

Teresa Heffernan is a professor in the Department of English at St. Mary’s University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Islam, Secularism, and the Veil
2. The Great Whore of Babylon: Cosmopolitanism and Racialized Nationalism
3. Two Western Women Venture East: Lady Annie Brassey and Anna Bowman Dodd
4. The Great War and its Aftermath: Militarized Citizens, (Un)Veiled
Bodies, and the Nation
5. The Burqa and the Bikini: Veiling and Unveiling at the Turn of the
Twentieth Century
Conclusion: The Legacy of Orientalism