Modest Fashion ：Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith

Publication subTitle ：Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith

Author： Lewis> Reina

Publisher： I.B.Tauris‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9780857722256

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781780763835

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword：社会学

Language： ENG

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Description

Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world, yet so far it has been given little serious attention and is rarely seen as fashion. Modest Fashion uniquely studies and addresses both the consumers and the producers of modest clothing. It examines the growing number of women who, for reasons of religion, faith or personal preference, decide to cover their bodies and dress in a way that satisfies their spiritual and stylistic requirements. These are women who are making fashionable the art of dressing modestly. Scholars and journalists, fashion designers and bloggers explore the emergence of a niche market for modest fashion and examine how this operates across and between faiths, and in relation to 'secular' dressers.

Chapter

Introduction: Mediating Modesty

Part 1 - Faith-based Fashion and the Commercially Fluid Boundaries of Confession

1. 'Discover the Beauty of Modesty': Islamic Fashion Online

2. Fashion Forward and Faith-tastic!: Online Modest Fashion and the Development of Women as Religious Interpreters and Intermediaries

3. Meeting Through Modesty: Jewish-Muslim Encounters on the Internet

4. Hasidic Women's Fashion Aesthetic and Practice: The Long and Short of Tzniuth

Part 2 - Modesty without Religion? Secularity, Shopping and Social Status through Appearance

5. Denim: The Modesty of Clothing and the Immodesty of Religion

6. Modest Motivations: Religious and Secular Contestation in the Fashion Field

7. 'Can we discuss this?'

Part 3 - Manufacturing and Mediating Modesty: The Industry and the Press

8. Modesty Regulators: Punishing and Rewarding Women's Appearances in Mainstream Media

9. Insider Voices, Changing Practices: Press and Industry Professionals Speak

Index

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