Overview
- Reshapes our understanding of gendered forms of religiosity and spirituality through the lens of gender and of embodiment
- Investigates how social actors deal with empowering conditions as well as restrictive situations
- Problematizes and complicates the discursive and lived interactions and intersections between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity
Part of the book series: New Directions in Islam (NDI)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modesty and Fashion: Reconfiguring Social Conditions and Identifications
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Normative Orders, Subjectivation and Counteractive Practices
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Materiality, Political Discourses, and Power
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style
Book Subtitle: Gendered Configurations in Muslim Contexts
Editors: Viola Thimm
Series Title: New Directions in Islam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71941-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71940-1Published: 06 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71943-2Published: 06 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71941-8Published: 05 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2991
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 317
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Religion, Cultural Studies