The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling (1st edition.)

Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political life, generating debates across the world.

The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation.

In recent year, the veil has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam and the nature of politics.