“Writing Veiled Bodies Anew: A Study of Maya al-Haj’s Burkini: I’tirafāt Muhajjaba"
awad, asmaa;
Abstract
The veil, as a female dress code and as a bodily discourse, is examined in this chapter as a vessel through which women’s subjectivity is expressed and linked to freedom/resistance/transcendence, on the one hand rather than oppression/docility/immanence on the other hand. This work discusses Maya al-Haj’s Burkini: Iʿtirāfāt Muḥajjaba (2014). This chapter aims at illustrating the relation of the veiled/unveiled woman to her body, how this relation is evoked, and whether the veil as a bodily extension is empowering or disempowering her on the level of bodily freedom and/or freedom of choice.
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| Title | “Writing Veiled Bodies Anew: A Study of Maya al-Haj’s Burkini: I’tirafāt Muhajjaba" | Authors | awad, asmaa | Keywords | veil, body, feminism, Foucault, power, freedom, oppression | Issue Date | 2021 | Publisher | Routledge | Related Publication(s) | Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East | ISBN | 9781003100164 |
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