![]() ![]() Is this a useful category of analysis for understanding Middle Eastern women? Is “the veil” a sign of “Islamic patriarchy”? If not, why are they linked in contemporary discourse? Until very recently, when Western scholars or readers wanted to learn more about women in Middle Eastern societies, their English-language options were either ethnographies or compensatory histories. ![]() To many Westerners, the veiled woman, repeated endlessly in popular and scholarly texts about the Middle East, is a signifier of Islamic patriarchy. An Egyptian woman in the 1990s puts on her hijab before going out to work. ![]() Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Yale, 1992).Īn eighteenth-century Ottoman woman left her urban household enshrouded in heavy veils. Keddie and Beth Baron, eds., Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (Yale, 1991). ![]()
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