{"product_id":"9781442637238-veiled-figures","title":"Veiled Figures","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWomen, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism\u003cbr\u003eIn Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eVeiled Figures\u003c\/em\u003e, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic \u003cem\u003eumma\u003c\/em\u003e and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53567278023030,"sku":"9781442637238","price":46.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31182035.jpg?v=1730915641","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781442637238-veiled-figures","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}