2. Shattered Vessels That Contain Divine Sparks: Unveiling Hasidic Women’s Dress Code

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1
7. 1. From Her Royal Body the Robe Was Removed: The Blessings of the Veil and the Trauma of Forced Unveilings in the Middle East 27
8. 2. Shattered Vessels That Contain Divine Sparks: Unveiling Hasidic Women’s Dress Code 44
9. 3. Going the Whole Nine Yards: Vignettes of the Veil in India 60
10. 4. Out of the Cloister: Unveiling to Better Serve the Gospel 75
11. 5. The Amish Veil: Symbol of Separation and Community 90
12. 6. “What is subordinated, dominates”: Mourning, Magic, Masks, and Male Veiling 99
13. 7. I Just Want to Be Me: Issues in Identity for One American Muslim Woman 119
14. Part 2
15. 8. “She freed and floated on the air”: Salome and Her Dance of the Seven Veils 139
16. 9. “He hath couerd my soule inwarde”: Veiling in Medieval Europe and the Early Church 160
17. 10. Nubo: The Wedding Veil 171
18. 11. After Eden: The Veil as a Conduit to the Internal 174
19. 12. Virtue and Sin: An Arab Christian Woman’s Perspective 191
20. 13. Drawing the Line at Modesty: My Place in the Order of Things 202
21. 14. On the Road: Travels with My Hijab 213
22. Part 3
23. 15. Purdah, Patriarchy, and the Tropical Sun: Womanhood in India 231
24. 16. The Veil: From Persepolis 248
25. 17. Concealing and Revealing Female Hair: Veiling Dynamics in Contemporary Iran 250
26. 18. That (Afghan) Girl! Ideology Unveiled in National Geographic 266
27. 19. Burqas and Bikinis: Islamic Dress in Newspaper Cartoons 281
28. 20. Dress Codes andModes: How Islamic Is the Veil? 290
29. 21. From Veil to Veil: “What’s in a woman’s head is a lot more important than what’s on it” 307
30. Epilogue 319
31. About the Contributors 323
32. Index 331