veils

Presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Minister's Black Veil" in which Reverend Mr. Hooper begins wearing a symbolic black veil. Includes reading and writing exercises.

The author shares photographs and anecdotes from her experiences traveling around the world in an effort to discover the styles and purposes of headwraps worn by people in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and West Asia, Asia and the South Pacific, and the Americas and Caribbean.

A study of veiling in contemporary Arab culture, arguing that the practice is about more than modesty and seculsion, but also communicates exclusivity of rank, nuances in kinship status and behavior, power and autonomy, and resistance.