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Modest fashion : styling bodies, mediating faith / edited by Reina Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dress culturesPublication details: London : I. B. Tauris, 2013.Description: xx, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781780763835
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.2 23
LOC classification:
  • GT1720 .M634 2013
Contents:
Introduction : mediating modesty / Reina Lewis -- Part 1. Faith-based fashion and the commercially fluid boundaries of confession -- "Discover the beauty of modesty" : Islamic fashion online / Annelies Moors -- Fashion forward and faith-tastic! Online modest fashion and the development of women as religious interpreters and intermediaries / Reina Lewis -- Meeting through modesty : Jewish-Muslim encounters on the Internet / Emma Tarlo -- Hasidic women's fashion aesthetic and practice : the long and short of tzniuth / Barbara Goldman Carrel -- Part 2. Modesty without religion? Secularity, shopping and social status through appearance -- Denim : the modesty of clothing and the immodesty of religion / Daniel Miller -- Modest motivations : religious and secular contestation in the fashion field / Jane Cameron -- "Can we discuss this?" / Elizabeth Wilson -- Part 3. Manufacturing and mediating modesty : the industry and the press -- Modesty regulators : punishing and rewarding women's appearances in mainstream media / Liz Hoggard -- Insider voices, changing practices : press and industry professionals speak / Reina Lewis (editor and contributor).
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status
Non-fiction Main tbd (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mediating modesty / Reina Lewis -- Part 1. Faith-based fashion and the commercially fluid boundaries of confession -- "Discover the beauty of modesty" : Islamic fashion online / Annelies Moors -- Fashion forward and faith-tastic! Online modest fashion and the development of women as religious interpreters and intermediaries / Reina Lewis -- Meeting through modesty : Jewish-Muslim encounters on the Internet / Emma Tarlo -- Hasidic women's fashion aesthetic and practice : the long and short of tzniuth / Barbara Goldman Carrel -- Part 2. Modesty without religion? Secularity, shopping and social status through appearance -- Denim : the modesty of clothing and the immodesty of religion / Daniel Miller -- Modest motivations : religious and secular contestation in the fashion field / Jane Cameron -- "Can we discuss this?" / Elizabeth Wilson -- Part 3. Manufacturing and mediating modesty : the industry and the press -- Modesty regulators : punishing and rewarding women's appearances in mainstream media / Liz Hoggard -- Insider voices, changing practices : press and industry professionals speak / Reina Lewis (editor and contributor).