The Routledge international handbook to veils and veiling practices

Notes on contributors -- Introduction : the veil across the globe in politics, everyday life, and fashion / Anna-Mari Almila -- Politics -- Neoliberalization and homo islameconomicus : the politics of women's veiling in Turkey / Yildiz Atasoy -- Discourses of veiling and the precarity of choice...

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Contributors: Almila, Anna-Mari (Editor) ; Inglis, David 1973- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York, NY Routledge 2018
In:Year: 2018
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Routledge international handbooks
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Muslim woman / Clothing / Veil / Fashion / History
Further subjects:B Muslim Women Clothing
B Collection of essays
B Islam
B Fashion
B Clothing and dress
B Clothing and dress Religious aspects
B Veils
B Veils Social aspects
B Islam Customs and practices
B Muslim Women
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Summary:Notes on contributors -- Introduction : the veil across the globe in politics, everyday life, and fashion / Anna-Mari Almila -- Politics -- Neoliberalization and homo islameconomicus : the politics of women's veiling in Turkey / Yildiz Atasoy -- Discourses of veiling and the precarity of choice : representations in post-9/11 US / Tabassum F. Ruby -- Wearing a veil in the french context of Laïcité / Anne Fornerod -- 2007/8 : the winter of the veiled women in Israel / Tamar Elor -- Veiling narratives : discourses of multiculturalism, acceptability and citizenship in Canada / Shelina Kassam and Naheed Mustafa -- Veiling and unveiling in Central Asia : beliefs and practices, tradition and modernity / Marianne Kamp and Noor Borbieva -- From politics to fashion -- Iran's compulsory hijab : from politics and religious authority to fashion shows / Faegheh Shirazi -- The fashions and politics of facial hair in Turkey : the case of Islamic men / Nazli Alimen -- Representing the veil in contemporary Australian media : from "ban the burqa" to "hijabi" bloggers / Branka Prodanovic and Susie Khamis -- Fashion and anti-fashion -- Modest fashion and anti-fashion / Reina Lewis -- Veiling, fashion and the (per)formative role of dress in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- The "discipline of the veil" among converts to Islam in France and Quebec : framing gender and expressing femininity / Géraldine Mossière -- Muslim youth practicing veiling in Berlin : modernity, morality and aesthetics / Synnøve Bendixsen -- Fashioning selves : biographic pathways of hijabi women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Gisele Fonseca Chagas and Solange Riva Mezabarba -- Industries, images, materialities -- Culture industries and marketplace dynamics / Özlem Sandikci -- Images of desire : creating virtue and value in an Indonesian Islamic lifestyle magazine / Carla Jones -- Smart-ening up the hijab : the materiality of contemporary British muslim veiling in the physical and the digital / Shehnaz Suterwalla -- Gender, space, community -- Veiling, gender and space : on the fluidity of "public" and "private" / Anna-Mari Almila -- Spacialised veiling and a critique of the public/private dichotomy : a view from a town in north India / Janaki Abraham -- Hui women and the headscarf in China / Xiaoyan Wang -- Constructions and reconstructions of "appropriate dress" in the diaspora : young somali women and social control in finland / Anu Isotalo -- Cover their face : masks, masking, and masquerades in historical-anthropological context / David Inglis -- The Amish prayer cap as a symbol that bounds the community / Jana M. Hawley -- Veiling studies and globalization studies / David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0367193019