Muslim Women and the Veil: Where’s the Misogyny?

Hibba Abugideiri

Villanova University 

Why do Muslim women wear the veil, especially in the United States? Are face veils signs of oppression? Is Islam a misogynistic religion? And why has a 14 X 14 piece of cloth obsessed the West for over a century and endured as a symbol with global resonance? Abugideiri addresses misconceptions by placing veiling—and even unveiling—practices in their historical contexts. An associate professor of history, she is the former Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova and the author of Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt. Abugideiri is also a senior editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women.

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