
The Image of Veil in Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam
Author(s) -
Asım Aydın
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
tarih kültür ve sanat araştırmaları dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2147-0626
DOI - 10.7596/taksad.v2i2.234
Subject(s) - islam , representation (politics) , gender studies , position (finance) , sociology , aesthetics , art , history , political science , law , archaeology , economics , finance , politics
Most of the time suppressed and disempowered throughout man’s history, the gender of woman has undergone a dissipating process where such an overpowering oscillation between two genders occurs. In spite of the fact that this bias creates a generalization, the position of the ‘womanhood’ wasn’t always under subjugation. As a matter of fact, this essay intends to throw light upon women’s ‘past, present and future’ by relying on mainly Leila Ahmed’s flagship works into by drawing a map showing how the veil plays a critical role in the representation of women