Fashioning The Modern Middle East

Author : Reina Lewis,Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135239

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In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, recount the role of the visible elite body in campaigns for gender and social emancipation, dress histories concerning early nationalist women and men, and legal frameworks used by those who seek to control the movement of gendered bodies. The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East. Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, Fashioning the Modern Middle East contains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, photography and gender. Bringing forward new primary material and re-investigating extant sources from new perspectives, this is the essential introduction to the role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East.

Author : Reina Lewis,Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135222

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Fashioning the Modern Middle East by Reina Lewis,Yasmine Nachabe Taan Pdf

In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, recount the role of the visible elite body in campaigns for gender and social emancipation, dress histories concerning early nationalist women and men, and legal frameworks used by those who seek to control the movement of gendered bodies. The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East. Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, Fashioning the Modern Middle East contains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, photography and gender. Bringing forward new primary material and re-investigating extant sources from new perspectives, this is the essential introduction to the role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East.

Author : Norman Stillman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491625

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Arab Dress, A Short History by Norman Stillman Pdf

This richly illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab and Islamic material culture - clothing. While in part descriptive, its principal focus is on the evolution and transformations of modes of dress over the past 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and for the Middle Ages, Islamic Spain. Arab clothing is treated as part of an Islamic vestimentary system and is discussed within the context of the social, religious, esthetic, and political trends of each age. In addition to the five historical chapters, three chapters are devoted to major themes of Arab costume history - the dress code for non-Muslims, the important socio-economic and political institution of luxury fabrics and garments of honor, and the most well-known and frequently misunderstood institution of veiling.

Author : Kerstin Pinther,Kristin Kastner,Basile Ndjio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350179547

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Fashioning the Afropolis by Kerstin Pinther,Kristin Kastner,Basile Ndjio Pdf

“A revelation. Reclaiming fashion from its European history.” – Shane White With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashioning the Afropolis provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas. To date, “fashion” and “city” have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa's rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights.

Author : Emma Tarlo,Annelies Moors
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857853356

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Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion by Emma Tarlo,Annelies Moors Pdf

Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion is the first comparative study of this highly topical issue and brings together cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars.

Author : Feng Jie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350200098

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Fashion in Altermodern China by Feng Jie Pdf

Fashion in Altermodern China examines key features of women's fashion within the cultural and political context of contemporary China. While global brands and styles heavily influence Chinese consumer trends, the Chinese fashion 'system' is formed of its own internal logics and emergent trends, too. Adopting the theoretical term 'altermodern', Feng Jie encourages us to view China in terms of its rapid modernization which presents its own rhythms and meanings, and argues persuasively that Chinese fashion can't be wholly understood in terms of a Western discourse of modernity, postmodernity and the global. Expanding our understanding of the fashion 'system', Fashion in Altermodern China takes on board new trends in global trade, new technologies, and the hybridity of designs and consumption of fashion. Through critical readings of Barthes, on the 'neutral', and Jullien, on 'blandness', both directly influenced by Asian philosophies, the author offers a new perspective on Chinese fashion, arguing that, while global-local contexts lead to identifiably postmodern and hybrid aesthetics, for women in contemporary China the flux and mix of available fashions is experienced in a more open neutral manner than scholars have previously described. Crucially, then, rather than position trends in China only in terms of 'hybridity' (which betrays a Western bias and a binary logic of host-recipient), there are more fluid ways in which we need to understand how women engage in fashion in China today.

Author : Andrea Kollnitz,Marco Pecorari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350106208

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Fashion, Performance, and Performativity by Andrea Kollnitz,Marco Pecorari Pdf

In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal 'complex space' – or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker. Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today. Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.

Author : Ilan Pappé
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415214092

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The Modern Middle East by Ilan Pappé Pdf

The Gulf states. Two introductory chapters on political and economic history set the broader context. The main text focuses on the experience of everyday people from Ottoman and colonial times through the present. Rural and urban history, popular culture, music, literature, theatre and other media, women, and the many faces of Islam are the chapter topics. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Yedida Kalfon Stillman
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004135936

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Arab Dress by Yedida Kalfon Stillman Pdf

This richly illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab-Islamic material culture - clothing. Surveying the evolution, transformations, and semiotics of modes of dress over 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and medieval Islamic Spain.

Author : Edited By Suraiya Faroqhi And Randi Deguilhem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000008295

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Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East by Edited By Suraiya Faroqhi And Randi Deguilhem Pdf

Author : Amany Abdelrazek-Alsiefy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031386657

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Modern Egyptian Women, Fashion and Faith by Amany Abdelrazek-Alsiefy Pdf

This book discusses Egyptian Muslim women’s dress as the social, political and ideological signifier of the changing attitudes towards Western modernity. It employs women’s clothing styles as a feminist act that provides rich insights into the power and limits of legal regulations and hegemonic discourses in constructing gendered and cultural borders in the modern Egyptian public sphere. Furthermore, through highlighting marginalized but significant models and historical moments of cultural exchange between Muslim and Western cultures through female dress, the book tells a third story beyond the binary model of an assumed modest oppressed traditional Muslim woman vis-à-vis consumer emancipated modern Western woman in mainstream Western discourse and literary representation.

Author : Reina Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822359146

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Muslim Fashion by Reina Lewis Pdf

In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as "evidence" in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:928119918

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The Emergence of the Modern Middle East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lisa Pollard,Mona L. Russell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003824367

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History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East by Lisa Pollard,Mona L. Russell Pdf

This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying the various ways in which gender has defined the region and shaped relations in the modern era. The book captures three aspects of change simultaneously: the events that mark the “modern” Middle East, women’s encounters with the transition to modernity and gendered responses to modernity. It contains both new fieldwork and a synthesis of secondary scholarship that highlight the role of gender in the modernization of Egypt, Turkey, Iran, the Levant and the Persian Gulf states. Chapters are organized chronologically to chart the rapid developments of the modern era, but each chapter also stands on its own, with coverage of masculinity and femininity, sexuality, marriage and the family, labor and women’s contributions to Arab Spring uprisings. Through this comprehensive account, the book pushes back on stereotypes that the Middle East is an ahistorical region and that women have not been vital actors in the process of change. Richly illustrated and accessible for a variety of readers, History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in gender studies and Middle Eastern history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1240425329

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The modern Middle East by Anonim Pdf