![]() Lazreg’s personal, impassioned and combative text is not ‘another book on the veil.’ Written by an Algerian Muslim woman whose maternal grandmother pushed the veil on her as a child and who is currently a professor of sociology in New York, her strong, but sensitive, prose rescues the veil debate from theological disputation and overly footnoted treatises. ![]() Keywords Gender Sexuality Veil Feminism Agency When I first received this book, I immediately thought not ‘another book on the veil.’ The issue of veiling in Islam has been covered extensively, indeed as well covered in various academic disciplines as the Afghan burqa covers a woman’s entire body. ![]() ![]() ISBN 978-8-3 Daniel Martin Varisco Published online: 12 January 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Marnia Lazreg: Questioning the veil: open letters to Muslim women Marnia Lazreg: Questioning the veil: open letters to Muslim womenĬont Islam (2012) 6:215–218 DOI 10.1007/s1156-5 Marnia Lazreg: Questioning the veil: open letters to Muslim women Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. ![]()
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