Cultural Policy-making and Veil Management: A Case study of Hījab

Public policy-making is tightly interwoven with growth. Public growth is a comprehensive growth which involves cultural growth as its essential part and cultural policy-making is one of the tools of cultural growth. There are no common views on culture being influenced by policy. On the other hand, veil as the most prominent cultural symbol is tightly and mutually interwoven with culture and just as culture there are some disagreements in the field of public intervention. Government intervention is the common ground of the discussed issues in the field of culture and veil. On this basis, the two perspectives of free culture and controlled culture are being introduced, based on which, some consider veil to be a personal and private matter out of the realm of public domain and some consider it to be belong to the public domain. The present article, through investigating the possibility of culture being affected by policy, attempts to find out that either veil belongs to the public domain or to the private domain and it further analyzes and discusses the ways of government intervention.