An Embellishment: Purdah
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Jane Rendell
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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I spent my childhood in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates. Remembering those times brings to mind spatial images of thresholds and boundaries. I am there, in those scenes, engaged in tracing the edges of surfacescarpets, dresses, walls, floors. In the Midd