Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism

217 Pages·2016·1.008 MB·English

by  Teresa Heffernan

VEILED FIGURES
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Veiled Figures
Women, Modernity, and the
Spectres of Orientalism
TERESA HEFFERNAN
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London

For my siblings
In memory of my dear sister, Shelagh Heffernan (1955–2010)
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
1 Islam, the Enlightenment, and the Veil 14
2 The Great Whore of Babylon: Cosmopolitanism and
Racialized Nationalism 47
3 Two Western Women Venture East: Lady Annie Brassey and
Anna Bowman Dodd 72
4 The Great War and Its Aftermath: Militarized Citizens,
(Un)Veiled Bodies, and the Nation 100
5 The Burqa and the Bikini: Veiling and Unveiling at the Turn of
the Twenty-fi rst Century 119
Epilogue: The Spectres of Orientalism 145
Notes 149
Bibliography 179
Index 193
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Illustrations
1.1 Rayhana, Daughter of Ka’b ibn Malik, Neglected
by Her Husband , Life of the Prophet 30
1.2 Le Bain Turc , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 32
3.1 “Natives of Turkey,” Lady Brassey album 81
3.2 Descending the Pyramids , Lady Annie Brassey 83
3.3 The Three Races , Emile Bernard 84
3.4 “Schoolboys,” Sultan Abdulhamid’s photo collection 87
5.1 Niqabitches, still image from video 121
5.2 Spam lingerie advertisement 126