Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering

This collection of essays about Jewish women and head-covering ranges from Halakhic essays to personal reflections from women who find genuine spiritual and emotional rewards in covering their hair and from those who explain their difficulties in doing so. There is discussion of the different ways of covering hair, and contributions by women who are divorced and widowed. A piece by Erica Brown on Orthodox women who choose not to cover their hair, explores the relationships of head covering to issues not only of Halakha and modesty but of politics and social identity.