Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible
invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more
than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the
veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It
examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through
the politics of freedom as grounded in a 'natural' body, in the
index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free
the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving
the Muslim woman is the West's desire to save itself. The
preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves
neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in
women's bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries
of the West's mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends
that the imagination of unveiling restores the West's sense of its
own power and enables it to intrude where it is 'other' - thus
making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom,
all the while stifling the question of what freedom is.
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