"During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes-and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire...

Introduction -- The culturalization of the headscarf -- The world of retail sales -- Demarcation lines in retail employment and the exclusion of the headscarf -- Great expectations: the meanings loaded on the headscarf -- The desire to be unmarked: distancing from the essentialized meanings of...