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BL
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862973
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| Main Entry
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Ghumkhor, Sahar
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| Title & Author
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The political psychology of the veil : : the impossible body /\ Sahar Ghumkhor.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2020]
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, ©2020
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology Ser.
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1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) :: color illustrations
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| ISBN
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3030320618
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: 9783030320614
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303032060X
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9783030320607
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: Bodies without Shadows -- 2. The Unveiling Body -- 3. The 'Pure Defense of the Innocent' and Innocence Lost: Imagining the Veiled Woman in Human Rights -- 4. The Woman Question -- 5. The Postcolonial Veil: Bodies in Contact -- 6. The Confessional Body -- 7. Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a 'natural' body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more of a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West's desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women's bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West's mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West's sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is 'other' - thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is.
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| Subject
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Muslim women-- Clothing-- Psychological aspects.
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| Subject
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Veils-- Psychological aspects.
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Veils-- Psychological aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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297.082
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| LC Classification
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BP173.4.G58 2020eb
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