For many Westerners, the Islamic veil is the ultimate sign of women’s oppression. But Elizabeth Bucar’s take on clothing worn by Muslim women is a far cry from this older feminist attitude toward veil
Who says you can't be pious and fashionable? Throughout the Muslim world, women have found creative ways of expressing their personality through the way they dress. Headscarves can be modest or bold,
Banned in public institutions in France and Turkey, mandatory in Saudi Arabia and Iran, no other item of clothing incites such furious reactions. The Islamic veil ? a catch-all term that encompasses e
Bucar (religious studies, U. of North Carolina-Greensboro) uses rhetorical analysis to examine similarities and differences in how Catholic women in the US and Shi'a women in Iran respond to the rulin
Bucar and Stalnaker's selection of new approaches to the comparative study of religious ethics provides an accessible introduction to the most current research in the field, and shows that a variety o
