ABSTRACT
L e a d in g up to the complete unveiling without distinction of time and place, which has now become for Turkish women entirely a matter of personal choice, there are many milestones of advance. It has been for me a fascinating study to see how the different parts of the East pass through the same general stages of little freedoms, in their approach to the final goal. The importance attached to each advance seems indeed strange to one accustomed to the freedom of the West. The eagerness with which a woman of Teheran told me in 1928 that she could now eat a dish of ice-cream in a public refreshment place opened before me the whole vista of her monotonous life behind the veil.
