(Re-)Claiming bodies through fashion and style : gendered configurations in Muslim contexts

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(Re-)Claiming bodies through fashion and style : gendered configurations in Muslim contexts

Title remainder

gendered configurations in Muslim contexts

Statement of responsibility

Viola Thimm, editor

Contributor

• Thimm, Viola,

Editor

• Thimm, Viola,

Subject

• Fashion -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Fashion -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Human body -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Human body -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Muslim women -- Clothing
• Muslim women -- Clothing

Language

eng

Summary

"This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as religionized phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between fashionized religion, religionized fashion, commercialization and processes of feminization as a starting point, this book reshapes our understanding of gendered forms of religiosity and spirituality through the lens of gender and embodiment. Focusing mainly on the agency and creativity of women as they appropriate ways of performing and interpreting various modalities of Muslim clothing and body practices, the book investigates how these social actors deal with empowering conditions as well as restrictive situations. Foregrounding contemporary scholars diverse disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches, this book problematizes and complicates the discursive and lived interactions and intersections between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity. It will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across gender, sociology of religion, Islamic and fashion studies."--

Member of

• New directions in Islam

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OHX

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New directions in Islam