(Re-)Claiming bodies through fashion and style : gendered configurations in Muslim contexts / / Viola Thimm, editor

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Disciplina: 297.57082
• Soggetto topico: Muslim women - Clothing
• Persona (resp. second.): ThimmViola
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: (Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style-Gendered Configurations in Muslim Contexts -- (Re-)Claiming the Gendered Muslim Body -- Constituting, Living, and Challenging the Religionized Gendered Body -- Consumerist Developments of Body Work -- References -- Modesty and Fashion: Reconfiguring Social Conditions and Identifications -- Beauty East, Beauty West: Muslim Beauty in Indonesian Islamic Magazines -- Jilbab: Meanings and Identity -- Women's Beauty in Islamic Women's Magazines: Between Eastern and Western Beauty -- Conclusion -- References -- "Your Life Would Be Twice as Easy If You Didn't Wear It, It's Like a Superhero's Responsibility." Clothing Practices of Young Muslim Women in Germany as Sites of Agency and Resistance -- Contesting Debates on the "Appropriate" Veiling -- Hypervisibility and Self-Positioning as Veiled Women in Germany -- (Re)Claiming the Body as a Site of Resistance Through Clothing Practices -- Community Building on Instagram -- Conclusion -- References -- "How I Wear My Headscarf." Narratives About Dress and Styling from Young Muslim Women in Copenhagen -- Introduction and Literature Overview -- The International Modest Fashion Industry -- Modest Fashion in Denmark -- Methodology -- Insights from the Study: Development of the Modest Fashion Market in Copenhagen, Denmark -- Insights from Study: How I Wear My Headscarf -- Insights from Study: Modest Fashion in Copenhagen in a Five Year Perspective -- Insights from Study: International Context and Social Media -- Discussion and Preliminary Findings on Modest Fashion in Copenhagen -- References -- Trending Muslim Appeal and the Discourse on Intersectional Diversity -- Introduction: Looking Muslim and the Paradigm of Intersectional Diversity. ; Conceptual Thoughts on Fashion as Embodied Practice -- Trending Muslim Appeal in Mainstream Fashion-Empirical Data -- Methodology -- Diversity in Fashion-An Industry Is Awakening -- The Veiling Trend-Fetishizing or Including Muslim Women? -- Conclusion: The Hegemony of Looking Good -- References -- Men's Non-Fashion: Embodying Authority in the Gulf -- Introducing the Field: An Incident in Dubai Mall -- Men's Garments -- Embodying Nationality and Culture -- Gendered Fashion and Non-Fashion -- Conclusion -- References -- Normative Orders, Subjectivation and Counteractive Practices -- The Halal Nail Polish: Religion and Body Politics in the Marketplace -- Faith, Fashion, and Body -- The Nail Polish Controversy -- Piety -- Modesty -- Authority -- Conclusion -- References -- Hijab as Migration: Embracing and Leaving Hijab in Contemporary Indonesia -- Hijrah Phenomenon, Fashion Industry, and Veiling Experiences -- Leaving Hijab and In-Between World -- Embracing and Leaving Hijab as Migration -- References -- After the Hijab: Liminal States of Post-veiling Embodiment -- Unveiling in Modern Muslim Communities -- De-veiling as Tactical -- Transition and Liminal Embodiment -- Transitioning Out from the Regimes of Veiling -- The Threat of Liminality -- Conclusion -- References -- High Heels and Rainbow Hijab -- Introduction -- Genders and Islam -- The Transgenders of South Asia: The Semi-sacred Hijras -- The Rainbow Spectrum in Islam and Their Expressions in Dressing -- Fashion: Cultural Forms or Political Assertions? -- Conclusion -- References -- Materiality, Political Discourses, and Power -- The Fabric of Diasporic Designs: Wearing Punjabi Suits Home and Away Among South Asian Women in Europe -- Literature Review: Ethnic Fashion Gone Modern -- Salwar-Kameez: A Critical History -- Methods and Context. ; Pulling the Drawstring: Diaspora Experiences and Gendered Fashion Habits -- Simran (Brescia): Sewing Entrepreneurship -- Debi (Amsterdam): From Slaves to Starlets -- Rachida (Birmingham): Fashion Heritage and the Body Proper -- From a Digital Survey to a Tentative Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Materiality, the Malaḥfa (Mauritanian Veil), and Social Hierarchy -- Shifting Social Rank -- The Materiality of Dress -- The Duality of the Malaḥfa: Religious Garment and Vehicle for Seduction -- Malaḥfas, Wealth, and Social Networks -- Transparent Fabrics and Creating Beautiful Personas -- Conclusion -- References -- More Than a Garment: The haïk in Algeria as a Means of Embodied Artistic Expression -- The Artist and a First Attempt of Framing the Haïk -- "Forbidden Gaze, Muted Sound"5: The Haïk, Orientalist Pictures and Colonialization -- Frantz Fanon and the Veil-The Remote Colonized Subject -- After Independence: A New Identity in (Not Only) Women's Dress -- Souad Douibi and the Haïk: Art and Representation -- The "Return of the Storks" or: Why to Wear the Haïk? -- Official Memories of War and Martyrdom -- "The Drowning Eye"16: Images of Women Between Memory and Dream -- Conclusion -- A Public Space for Artistic and Civil Expression -- Different Images of Women -- Play with Complex Memories -- References -- Toward a Self-Empowered Female Body: Body Language, Tactility, and Materiality in Contemporary Art -- It's All About Freedom, Isn't It? -- Orientalism: A Discourse of Power -- A One-Way Discourse? -- Artistic Intervention -- Self-Empowerment as Artistic Strategy -- "It's Time We See New Imagery"12 -- The Medium Matters -- An Extension of the Art Canon: Fashion -- Art as a Way Out -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style
• ISBN: 3-030-71941-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910490024803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New directions in Islam.