The veiling issue in 20th century Iran in fashion and society, religion, and government
This essay focuses on the Iranian woman’s veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019
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| Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
| Summary: | This essay focuses on the Iranian woman’s veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving multiple agendas. Sometimes the function of veiling is contradictory in that it can serve equally opposing political agendas. © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
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| ISBN: | 20771444 (ISSN) |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rel10080461 |