Women’s Body Image in The Algerian Culture

Abstract

The study was targeted to present the concept of women and veiling in the Algerian society. The study identifies the reasons why Muslim women wear the veil and vice versa. Though with reference to our study, we used the term veil to refer to either hijab or full -face veil. The full -face veil covers the complete body except the eyes while hijab makes reference to the veil that address the top but leaves the facial skin uncovered and women who wear the hijab with different styles and colors. Our research has done mainly to provide a better understanding of the concept of veiled and unveiled women in the Algerian society and to see how society and men view veiled and unveiled women. The study involved forty randomly selected men and women. They were University students and working men and women. To better investigate this research, a questionnaire and an observation are the main methods used to collect data. Results indicated that people have positive responses towards veiled women compared to non veiled and also men have a highly negative responses towards veiled compared to its counterparts inrelation to the physical attractivness and level of intelligence as hypothesized.