Bas les voiles ! - Chahdortt Djavann
- In French. First published in 2003.
"But what isit like to wear the veil, to live in a veiled body? What does it mean to be sentenced to confinement in a veiled body for the only reason of being a woman? Why do we weil girls, only girls? Why did they hide their bodies, their hair? Who has the right to speak? I wore the veil for ten years. it was the veil or death. I know whereof I speak. "
-> A amazing booklet where in a few well thought sentences and pages one can see behind just the obvious. Wearing a veil is more than just showing one's own faith... it is the privation of one's individual freedom and the utmost alienation. What a book!
"But what isit like to wear the veil, to live in a veiled body? What does it mean to be sentenced to confinement in a veiled body for the only reason of being a woman? Why do we weil girls, only girls? Why did they hide their bodies, their hair? Who has the right to speak? I wore the veil for ten years. it was the veil or death. I know whereof I speak. "
-> A amazing booklet where in a few well thought sentences and pages one can see behind just the obvious. Wearing a veil is more than just showing one's own faith... it is the privation of one's individual freedom and the utmost alienation. What a book!