The Muslim veil in North America : issues and debates /

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Imprint:	Toronto, ON : Women's Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 306 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subject:	Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Hijab (Islamic clothing) -- Canada. Muslim women -- Clothing -- Canada. Muslim women -- Canada -- Social conditions. Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Hijab (Islamic clothing) Muslim women -- Clothing. Muslim women -- Social conditions. Canada. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135314

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Other authors / contributors:	Alvi, Sajida Sultana, 1941- Hoodfar, Homa. McDonough, Sheila.
ISBN:	1417587326 9781417587322 0889614083 9780889614086 1459321979 9781459321977
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Muslim veil in North America. Toronto, ON : Women's Press, 2003 0889614083
Publisher's no.:	412529 CaOOCEL

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Homa Hoodfar, Sajida S. Alvi, Sheila McDonough
Part I. Veiling practices in everyday life in Canada
More than clothing : veiling as an adaptive strategy / Homa Hoodfar
Coding dress : gender and the articulation of identity in a Canadian Muslim school / Patricia Kelly Spurles
Banners of faith and identities on construct : the hijāb in Canada / Reem A. Meshal
Voices of Muslim women / Sheila McDonough-- Perception of the hijāb in Canada / Sheila McDonough
Part II. Women revisiting texts and the veiling discourse
Muslim women and Islamic religious tradition : a historical overview and contemporary issues / Sajida S. Alvi
Women's modesty in Qurʼanic commentaries : the founding discourse / Soraya Hajjaji-Jarrah
Hijāb according to the Hadīth : text and interpretation / L. Clarke.

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