The woman in the muslin mask: veiling and identity in postcolonial literature

1. Background to the veil: history, theory and culture

2. Imagining veiled woman

3. Revealing and re-veiling: Egypt

4. Piety and patriarchy: the Arabian Peninsular and the Eastern Mediterranean

5. Violence, liberation and resistance: North Africa

6. Subversion, seduction and shame: India

7. Conclusion: liberating the veil.