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Veils and Sales: Muslims and the spaces of postcolonial fashion retail
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The authors analyzed the presence of veiled assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing, linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity) and connecting recent international Muslim lifestyle consumer cultures to gendered consumption in the development of Middle Eastern modernities.Abstract:
Linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity), this article analyzes the presence of veiled assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing. In the anxious days after the 2005 bombs, the veiled body working in West End fashion retail moved through the postcolonial city in a series of fluid dress acts whose meanings were only partially legible to her different audiences. Connecting recent international Muslim lifestyle consumer cultures to gendered consumption in the development of Middle Eastern modernities, this article evaluates new British legislation protecting expressions of faith at work in relation to the role of veiled shop girls in postcolonial shopping geographies.read more
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Beyond the officially sacred: religion, secularism, and the body in the production of subjectivity
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The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling
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Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British national identity, citizenship and gender in the 'veil affair'
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Introduction: Muslim Women, Consumer Capitalism, and the Islamic Culture Industry
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Islamic-ness in the life of a commodity: veiling-fashion in Turkey
Banu Gökarıksel,Anna J. Secor +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the question of what makes a commodity "Islamic" as it traverses both material and symbolic production, and find that the Islamicness of a commodity cannot in fact be located or fixed; it is instead best understood as a mode of insertion into socio-spatial networks.
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Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity
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The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the Second Edition of the Second edition of Addressing the Body, the authors address the body addressing the body, and theorizing fashion and dress, fashion, dress and social change.
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The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling
TL;DR: Gole's sociological approach, employing a number of personal interviews, allows for both a detailed case study of these young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamist gender codes, and for a broader critique of Eurocentrism and the academic literature regarding the construction of meaning.