in the Western world, and certain practices in the 1960s and 1970s such as burning the bra, seem to have parallels to the apparent rebellion of women against similar restrictions in clothing that have been interpreted as signaling the subordinate status of women as a class. However, now we have access to women’s narratives from cultures practicing women’s veiling that tell another story. We find that there is a strong current of pious fundamentalist women in Islam and Judaism who choose to veil for