Object Lessons: Veil

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 136 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501322778

Published:7 Sep 2017

Weight:128g

Dimensions:165 x 122 x 11 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

《實例研究：面紗》既是回憶錄，又是哲學研究，他質疑看到的東西永遠都是美好而自由的，而蒙着面紗的東西只能表示奴役和欺騙。從在法國（被禁止的地方）與面紗的私人相遇到在伊朗（被強制的地方）的面紗，扎卡里亞（Zakaria）展示了這種服裝作為前現代遺物的聲譽如何引起人們的關注和爭奪。面紗是不斷變化的對象，其無數含義挑戰着父權制的*真理。

In a world where visibility is power and identity is at the core of political contestation, the veil questions notions of who is and what is-Veil is a personal-philosophical exploration into how such fluidity of meaning and significance can reside in a single object.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer power to women. Starting from her own marriage ceremony at which she first wore a full veil, Rafia Zakaria examines how veils do more than they get credit for.

Part memoir and part philosophical investigation, Veil questions that what is seen is always good and free, and that what is veiled can only signal servility and subterfuge. From personal encounters with the veil in France (where it is banned) to Iran (where it is compulsory), Zakaria shows how the garment’s reputation as a pre-modern relic is fraught and up for grabs. The veil is an object in constant transformation, whose myriad meanings challenge the absolute truths of patriarchy.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

作者簡介

Rafia Zakaria is an attorney, a political philosopher, and a columnist for DAWN Pakistan and AL Jazeera America. She is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Aeon, Guernica, the New York Times and others. Her book The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (2015) received positive reviews in the New York Times, NPR, Ms.Magazine. Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Toronto Star, Bustle, Hindustan Times, DNA India, Indian Express, Calcutta Statesman, Dissent and The Nation.