A history of women's seclusion in the Middle East : the veil in the looking glass / Ann Chamberlin.

PS UNIKEB - Pn Suziana Mat Saad

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-288) and index.

Seclusion at work -- A return to the Taliban -- Ancient veiling -- Artistic representation -- Written evidence -- Domestic architecture -- Architecture : the sacred -- In the sacred storehouse -- Sacred pegs --'HRM' -- Balance in the paleolithic : sacred time, space, and persons -- Evolution -- Biology -- The clan -- Environment for seclusion -- Trade -- Capital and land -- The British parallel : enclosure -- Liberation of the individual -- The hunger for the individual -- The urban Mesopotamian clan -- How Mesopotamian culture effected individual alienation -- The personal god -- Cities of power -- Vernacular gender -- Slavery -- Honor -- Masscult -- Women's tongue -- For men only -- The fate of seclusion in the west -- Conclusion.