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Modern Egyptian women, fashion and faith : discourses and representations / Amany Abdelrazek-Alsiefy.

9783031386657 (electronic bk.)
3031386655 (electronic bk.)
9783031386640
3031386647

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

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10.1007/978-3-031-38665-7 doi

HQ1793.M63 A23 2023

305.40962

This book discusses Egyptian Muslim womens dress as the social, political and ideological signifier of the changing attitudes towards Western modernity. It employs womens clothing styles as a feminist act that provides rich insights into the power and limits of legal regulations and hegemonic discourses in constructing gendered and cultural borders in the modern Egyptian public sphere. Furthermore, through highlighting marginalized but significant models and historical moments of cultural exchange between Muslim and Western cultures through female dress, the book tells a third story beyond the binary model of an assumed modest oppressed traditional Muslim woman vis--vis consumer emancipated modern Western woman in mainstream Western discourse and literary representation. Amany Abdelrazek-Alsiefy is a writer and independent researcher based in Berlin, Germany. She received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Institute of English Language and Literature at Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany, in 2022. Currently, she is preparing her postdoctoral research on Gender, Colourism and Modernity in Egyptian and Sudanese Womens writing. She published articles and research papers in English and Arabic. Her English articles have appeared in SN Social Sciences, Janus Inbound: Journal of Critical Studies, and International Journal of English and Literature, and she has recently presented at the Fashion Body and Culture: International Conference in London and Decoloniality, Gender Equity and Diversity: International Conference at the University of Johannesburg.

References -- 6 Post-Colonial Egyptian Women and Fashion: Patriarchy and Consumerism -- The Islamic Revival and the Comeback of the Dying Veil: Modernity, Modesty and Patriarchal Society -- Sadat's Open Door Policy: Consumerism, Feminism, and Fashion -- Egyptian Women's Appearance Between Religion, Market and State -- "Cool" Preachers and Fashionable "Islamic" Dress -- References -- 7 Revolution, Egyptian Women's Bodies and Representation Beyond Traditional Media -- Revolution and Women's Role in the Public Sphere: An Ambiguous Social and Political Context

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