Re Claiming Bodies Through Fashion And Style

Author : Viola Thimm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030719418

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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.

Author : Viola Thimm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030719421

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"Like the wide array of practices these essays examine, this book invites readers to consider the diversity of settings and meanings that fall under the broad umbrella of Muslim sartorial style. We are introduced to the intimate yet high-stakes decisions ranging from headcover to nail polish, from Mauritania to Turkey to Indonesia. In so doing, we are reminded of the centrality of two important facts. First, that all forms of dress and the techniques of their use are always formed in dense familial, national, and transnational contexts. Second, that this variety still intersects with a fundamental fact: these styles dress and address the body. By refocusing on the body, this volume allows interdisciplinary perspectives to productively cross-fertilize the field of modest dress." Carla Jones, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA 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. Viola Thimm is Professorial Candidate (Habilitandin) at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg (Germany). A cultural anthropologist, her research interests include cultural practices of mobility, gender relations and intersectionality, and Islam and its socio-cultural entanglements.

Author : Christian Allaire
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781773214924

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The Power of Style by Christian Allaire Pdf

Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay, make up, hijabs, and hair, probing the connections between fashion and history, culture, politics, and social justice. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Stephanie Schnurr,Kieran File
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110789829

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The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports by Stephanie Schnurr,Kieran File Pdf

Author : D. Hicks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137269119

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Reclaiming Spirit in the Black Faith Tradition by D. Hicks Pdf

This work attempts to uncover the function of religion for those degraded on the basis of race. Accordingly, Recalibrating Spirit reveals the role of religion in critical reflection on and active protest against negative assertions about racial identity in general, and the abuse of black life in particular.

Author : Ayang Utriza Yakin,Adis Duderija,An Van Raemdonck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350386112

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Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam by Ayang Utriza Yakin,Adis Duderija,An Van Raemdonck Pdf

With a particular emphasis on definitions, continuities, and change, this edited volume examines the historical role and function of haya' – or feelings of shame, modesty, and honor – in Islamic theology and law, and explores contemporary Muslims' engagements with the concept. The book explores various conceptions of haya' and the practices associated with the concept in both Muslim majority and minority contexts. The empirically rich contributions reveal how haya' is socially constructed in varying social and cultural environments across the globe. From medieval Islam to the modern day, this book demonstrates the importance of haya' and its temporal and spatial transformations.

Author : Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052941

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Dressed for Freedom by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox Pdf

Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women’s sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness. A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.

Author : Allison Bornstein
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781797221434

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Wear It Well by Allison Bornstein Pdf

Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery using the Three-Word Method and AB Closet-Editing System. Personal stylist Allison Bornstein has mastered the art of helping people look good and feel good. In Wear It Well, she shares her philosophy and outlines systems that will bring your style into alignment and create a wardrobe that delights your spirit and reflects your most authentic self. Use the viral Three-Word Method to discover and define your personal style. Curate your closet with the AB Closet-Editing System, eliminating items that don’t fit or work for your lifestyle to build a safe and inspiring space that is filled with only clothes that bring you joy, confidence, and empowerment. Create new, sustainable looks by shopping your closet and mixing and matching with the Nine Universal Pieces. Filled with client stories, gentle guidance, and expressive photography, Wear It Well will inspire you to identify, articulate, and develop your personal style, and dress with ease. UNIQUE BLEND OF WELLNESS, SELF-CARE, AND FASHION: The only "Joy of Dressing" book there is: no other book merges fashion, wellness, and self-care. In a time when many of us are at home or beginning to venture back out professionally or socially, this book will help take away the stress and anxiety around dressing. It is also a refreshing take on self-care that can easily be added to morning routines. A PROVEN PROGRAM: The AB Closet Editing System and Three Word Method are simple ways to organize your closet and your mind that Bornstein has successfully used with hundreds of clients. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BODY POSITIVITY: Wear It Well discusses how to combat and banish the voices of shame that permeate fashion culture and our own heads when we buy clothing. This will appeal to readers passionate about body positivity, and fans of The Body Is Not An Apology, Body Talk, and More Than A Body. PROMOTES SUSTAINABLE FASHION: Bornstein's program is based on shopping our closets rather than going out to buy an all-new wardrobe. She demonstrates how to choose ten versatile pieces to mix and match within our wardrobe. She also encourages readers to donate "never going to wear" clothes and to dress intentionally. Perfect for: Fashion and style enthusiasts interested in capsule wardrobes and intentional styling Followers of home organization, decluttering, and hygge trends Women and men who simultaneously hate and love getting dressed Young professionals, new moms, and women over 50 looking to redefine their style Anyone interested in sprucing up their closet or establishing new personal care habits Practitioners of body positivity Self-purchase or thoughtful gift for anyone seeking inspiration for self-care, happiness, wellness, and stress relief

Author : Marty Fink
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781978813786

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Forget Burial by Marty Fink Pdf

Finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination.

Author : Theodore Koutsobinas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783477456

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The Political Economy of Status by Theodore Koutsobinas Pdf

In this timely book, Theodore Koutsobinas explores the system of status markets and their social effects including inequality. He explains how media fascination with superstars and luxury consumption goods amplify positional concerns for all, distort t

Author : Reina Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857722256

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Modest Fashion by Reina Lewis Pdf

Increasing numbers of women are engaging in the development and discussion of modest dressing; a movement matched by a growing media and popular demand for intelligent commentary about the topic. Modest Fashion sets out to meet that need. As a trend, modest dressing is spreading across the world, yet it is rarely viewed as 'fashion'. Studying consumers and producers, retailers and bloggers, Modest Fashion provides an up to the minute account of the art of dressing modestly - and fashionably. Leading scholars in the area, along with journalists, fashion designers, entrepreneurs and bloggers discuss the emergence of a niche market for modest fashion among and between Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith groups as well as secular dressers. Crossing creeds and cultures, analysing commentary alongside commerce, the book probes the personal and the political as well as religious, aesthetic and economic implications of contemporary dress practices and the debates that surround them.

Author : Vicki Callahan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336878

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Reclaiming the Archive by Vicki Callahan Pdf

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches—including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ethno-historical studies, historiography, and textual analysis—by a diverse group of film and media studies scholars to prove that feminist theory, film history, and social practice are inevitably and productively intertwined. Essays in Reclaiming the Archive investigate the different models available in feminist film history and how those feminist strategies might serve as paradigmatic for other sites of feminist intervention. Chapters have an international focus and range chronologically from early cinema to post-feminist texts, organized around the key areas of reception, stars, and authorship. A final section examines the very definitions of feminism (post-feminism), cinema (transmedia), and archives (virtual and online) in place today. The essays in Reclaiming the Archive prove that a significant heritage of film studies lies in the study of feminism in film and feminist film theory. Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.

Author : John Hassard,Ruth Holliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134644179

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Contested Bodies by John Hassard,Ruth Holliday Pdf

The body occupies a prime position in contemporary theoretical work, yet still there is no consensus on exactly what it is and what constitutes it. Contested Bodies brings together a number of different accounts and perspectives on the body, drawing out some of the key connections and disjunctures from this most contested of topics. This volume features fresh and fascinating contributions from some of the leading thinkers and upcoming theorists in the field. Themes that run through the work include: * the place of the body in theory * the notion of labour in the production of bodies * the transformative potential of bodies on spaces. Grounded in real life experience and examples, this key text will be a valuable reference for undergraduates of sociology and gender studies.

Author : C. Edmondson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516827694

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Book 1 - The Guide Book by C. Edmondson Pdf

Do you have a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear? Do you struggle to find the clothing you like? Do you get frustrated when you find clothes you like but then they don't fit your body? Are you over whelmed by choices? Veteran merchandiser, buyer and fashion executive Melody Edmondson teaches you the secret to buying clothes you'll love to wear, and it's not about weight! Your Fashion Guide Based on Body Shape and THE SPACE OF THE WAIST(r) celebrates the body you have and teaches you how to shop like a professional stylist, breeze through stores with confidence to find the clothes that are meant for your body, maximize your Assets, feel great in your clothes and love the body you have! (edition 2, updated 9/15/2015)

Author : Laura T. Di Summa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350157026

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A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film by Laura T. Di Summa Pdf

The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and emotional engagement, this is the first time fashion and costume choices are analyzed to demonstrate how movies can be said to be doing philosophy. Considering how fashion and costumes can deliver the epistemic content of a film and act as a guidance to the interpretation of the philosophical content of a film, Laura T. Di Summa examines fashion and costume choices in classical and contemporary films. She discusses a number of cinematic examples, and the costumes and fashion elements within them, illustrating the importance of issues such as the performative side of fashion, the alteration between novelty and repetition, the pivotal role of the body, and the relation between fashion, style, and individual as well as collective identity. Featuring close examinations of 1950s melodramas, Hollywood blockbusters and documentaries such as All That Heaven Allows, Mad Max Fury Road, and McQueen, Di Summa uses an innovative new lens to provide fresh philosophical analysis of films. The result is not only an advancement of our understanding of the aesthetic means through which film can do philosophy, but the first insights into a philosophy of fashion.