Introduction / Jennifer Heath From her royal body the robe was removed : the blessings of the veil and the trauma of forced unveilings in the Middle East / Mohja Kahf Shattered vessels that contain sparks of the divine : unveiling Hasidic women's dress code / Barbara Goldman Carrel Going the whole nine yards : vignettes of the veil in India / Roxanne Kamayani Gupta Out of the cloister : unveiling to better serve the Gospel / Laurene Lafontaine The Amish veil : symbol of separation and community / Jana Hawley "What is subordinated, dominates" : mourning, magic, masks, and male veiling / Jennifer Heath I just want to be me : issues in identity for one American Muslim woman / Pamela K. Taylor "She freed and floated on the air" : Salome and her dance of the seven veils / Shireen Malik "He hath couerd my soule inwarde and myn heed with a veyle" : veiling in medieval Europe and the early church / Desiree G. Koslin Nubo : the wedding veil / Sarah C. Bell After Eden : the veil as a conduit to the internal / Eve Grubin Virtue and sin : an Arab Christian woman's perspective / Rita Stephan Drawing the line at modesty : my place in the order of things / Michelle Auerbach On the road : travels with my hijab / Maliha Masood Purdah, patriarchy, and the tropical sun : womanhood in India / Jasbir Jain The veil : from Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi Concealing and revealing female hair : veiling dynamics in contemporary Iran / Ashraf Zahedi That (Afghan) girl! : ideology unveiled in National geographic / Dinah Zeiger Burqa and bikinis : Islamic dress in newspaper cartoons / Kecia Ali Lampooning the veil from home ; Dress codes and modes : how Islamic is the veil? / Aisha Shaheed From veil to veil : "what's in a woman's head is more important than what's on it" / Sherifa Zuhur Epilogue | 
