Notes
[1] “Princess Hijab: Thursday, September 24, 2009” <http://viacomit.net/2009/09/24/princess-hijab/> Accessed 3 March 2010. This manifesto has been recently removed from Princess Hijab’s blog, and consequently exists only in reproduction on webpages such as ViaComIT.
[2] Ibid.
[3] For further reading on "spectacle" as theorized by the Situationists, refer to Guy Debord’s seminal text, The Society of the Spectacle (New York: Zone Books, 1995).
[4] For elaboration on the depth of this debate, refer to Christian Joppke’s Veil: Mirror of Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009), Afsaneh Najmabadi’s “Veiled Discourse-Unveiled Bodies,” Feminist Studies v. 19 n. 3 (Autumn, 1993), and Joan Wallach Scott’s, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
[5] Norman Mailer quoted in Alex Baker, et al. Beautiful Losers: Essays (New York: Iconoclast: in conjunction with Distributed Art Publishers, 2004), 198.
[6] Frantz Fanon, “Algeria Unveiled,” reprinted in Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art eds. David Baily and Gilane Tawadros (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003), 74.
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