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Summary
Summary
Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations as diverse as Paris, the Canadian Prairie, Swedish and Italian bath houses and former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. What new Islamic dress practices and anxieties are emerging in these different locations? How far are they shaped by local circumstances, migration histories, particular religious traditions, multicultural interfaces and transnational links? To what extent do developments in and debates about Islamic dress cut across such local specificities, encouraging new channels of communication and exchange? With original contributions from the fields of anthropology, fashion studies, media studies, religious studies, history, geography and cultural studies, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion will be of interest to students and scholars working in these fields as well as to general readers interested in the public presence of Islam in Europe and America.
Author Notes
Emma Tarlo is Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Annelies Moors is Professor of Social Scientific Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Building on recent cross-cultural research, editors Tarlo and Moors expose English-speaking readers to the widespread complexities and diversity of what contemporary Muslim women wear, and why. Sixteen essays by 19 scholars from Europe, Canada, and the US about Muslim populations outside traditional Middle Eastern areas reveal attitudes based on ethnic affiliation, urban sophistication, personal aesthetic considerations, individual secular expressions, and security concerns--way beyond the perimeters of religious traditionalism and modern feminist political debates over freedom and coercion. Many writers observe that, like veiling, body coverings can represent seeming opposites, such as the body-covering burquini (meaning burqa and bikini) swimwear, concealing and revealing headscarves used in fashion photography, contradictory aspects of subversiveness and compliance in societal contexts, and limits of multiculturalism. Young hijab-practicing Muslim women are shown wearing jeans, T-shirts, leather jackets, and athletic shoes, along with colorful head-and-neck-covering scarves. Others have body-covering garments and face-covering niqabs, while still others are bareheaded. Some Islamic females use hijab as a way of fighting Islamophobia and showing head coverings as fashionable. Similarly, the educational Canadian TV series Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007-12) brought to Western audiences a wide spectrum of Islamic clothing and social issues. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. B. B. Chico Regis University
