Functioning as a socio-political resource and method of discipline and control over women's bodies and sexualities, mandatory Islamic dress in Iran has been a central feature of the Islamic Regime's policy towards women. Intended to stand as a symbolic discourse of women's social and sexual submissiveness and docility, those who resist dress codes are subjected to severe punishment as well as stigmatisation. Despite repercussions, increasing numbers of urban Iranian women are refashioning their public bodies in new styles and appearances to not only resist dress codes but to more importantly challenge the regime's patriarchal discourses regarding women. This article seeks to examine the politicisation of Iranian women's bodies and sexualities through the emergence of this innovating women's resistance movement termed 'alternative dress'.
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(Re)Fashioning Resistance
Women, Dress and Sexuality in Iran
Shirin Abdmolaei
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
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- 38–55 (18 total)
Beyond the Binary
A Close Reading of Gender-Fluid Masculinities in Gucci's Spring/Summer 2016 Campaign
Judith Beyer
It is a hot summer day in June 2015 when the fashion crowd awaits Gucci's Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear collection at the former Farini railway station on the outskirts of Milan. It is Alessandro Michele's second season at the Italian fashion brand
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 125–148 (24 total)
“#HANDSOFFMYHIJAB”
A Digital Ethnography of Indian Hijab Stores’ Instagram Pages
Athira B.K. and Nidhi Balyan
working on Muslim clothing practices across geographies have observed that there is an increasing number of consumers of “Islamic fashion” ( Choi and Kim 2019: 1 ) and a search for a broad “non-Western fashion system” ( Akou 2007: 3 ) for a global audience
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2023
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- Research Article
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- 69–86 (18 total)
Beyond the Discourse of Sexualization
An Inquiry into the Adultification of Tween Girls’ Dressing in Singapore
Bernice Loh
that there are complexities to tween girls’ fashioning of themselves after adults which does not necessarily mean that they are being sexualized, and conversely, that tween girls do not need to fashion themselves sexily in order to fashion themselves
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 126–143 (18 total)
Gold Teeth, Indian Dresses, Chinese Lycra and ‘Russian’ Hair
Embodied Diplomacy and the Assemblages of Dress in Tajikistan
Diana Ibañez-Tirado
emphasize their attempts to use their bodies in a manner that helps them to become devout Muslims who are also representatives of the Tajik nation, the government, by contrast, seeks to fashion them simply as the incarnation of a national, modern and secular
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 23–41 (19 total)
Questioning Masculinity and the Gender Binary in Fashion
The Case of Glenn Martens at Y/Project
Nicola Brajato
If “[f]ashion is obsessed with gender, defines and redefines the gender boundary,” as fashion scholar Elizabeth Wilson claims, it seems that in the past decade this obsession has been more emphasized than ever ( Wilson 1985: 117 ). With the
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 100–124 (25 total)
Baroque Travesty
Queer Anachronism in Gwen van den Eijnde's Fashion Performances
Roberto Filippello
into what it means to practice and feel history (lower-case) through and on the fashioned body, and the queer relationships with both the audience's and his own body that such practice might engender. To parse van den Eijnde's work, I deploy the
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 30–52 (23 total)
Fashioning Masculinities through Migration
Narratives of Romanian Construction Workers in London
Alexandra Urdea
The present article aims to show that, for migrant men working in London in low- and mid-skilled jobs, migration is a path for fashioning the self as gendered actors striving to improve their livelihoods. The present article describes their
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 272–286 (15 total)
Self-Fashioning and Auto-Ethnography
Samuel Baron's Description of Tonqueen (1686)
Anna Winterbottom
Samuel Baron's A Description of the Kingdom of Tonqueen (1686) contains many tropes of the European travel narrative. However, its author was no stranger to the country, but was born to a Vietnamese mother and Dutch father in mid-seventeenth-century Hanoi. Here I discuss how Baron fashioned his identity during his life to attract multiple patrons in the unstable maritime world of Southeast and East Asia. I re-read his Description as an example of “auto-ethnography,” showing how the author shaped his work to achieve certain ends. A comparison with a contemporary Chinese description of northern Vietnam reveals many similarities in tone and approach and helps situate Baron's text within the commercial and diplomatic exchanges of the region.
The Opposite of Custom
Fashion, Sumptuary Law, and Consuetudo in Fifteenth-Century Northern Italy
M. Christina Bruno
Custom, Fashion, and Gender for Franciscan Observants Custom and fashion seem at first glance incompatible: one rooted in time immemorial, the other racing toward innovation at a dizzying pace. This was certainly the view of Francesco Piazza
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 59–78 (20 total)