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in “My Veil Makes Me Beautiful”: Paradoxes of Zeena and Concealment in Amman
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2015
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Figure 3. Fashionable veiling over Western-style clothes. Author’s personal collection. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Noor Al-Qasimi This article examines how the phenomenon of the ‘abaya-as-fashion is accommodated by the hegemonic order of Islamic patriarchy in the region of the Arab Gulf states. The traditional ‘abaya, or body veil commonly worn by national women across the Arab Gulf, is juxtaposed against...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 March 2009
... startling refer-
ences to veiling and burqas, but these are completely unacknowledged in
Norwich’s chronicle of the fashionable Camilla’s lifestyle.
Th ese examples promise earthly rewards for those who would not
only give up veiling, but in Hirsi Ali’s case, denounce it, or in Shah’s
case...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
... coverings and the veil. Central to this justification has been the
need to control female sexual power and, in turn, the male gaze, thus
placing the responsibility entirely on women.
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Many different societies have fashioned...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 321–323.
Published: 01 July 2017
... marker of Muslim (feminine) identity, the scarf, or by extension the veiled body, interact with practices that are deemed secular and modern, such as fashion? This richly documented and remarkably insightful book provides a set of answers by looking at the production, marketing, consumption, and cultural...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Afiya S. Zia; Shahrzad Mojab Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic Revival . Van Nieuwkerk Karin . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . 320 pages. isbn 9781477302255 paper. The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity . Botz-Bornstein...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 November 2010
... is currently collaborating with Anna Secor on a National Science Foundation–funded project on the transnational veiling-fashion industry based in Turkey. Ellen McLarney is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. She is currently...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 200–202.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of British Geographers, and in Women, Religion, and
Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith (ed. Karen Morin and
Jeanne Guelke, 2007). She is currently collaborating with Anna Secor
on a National Science Foundation–funded project on the transnational
veiling-fashion industry based in Turkey...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 118–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith (ed. Karen Morin and Jeanne Guelke, 2007). She is currently collaborating with Anna Secor on a National Science Foundation–funded project on the transnational veiling-fashion industry based in Turkey. Anna Secor is Associate Professor of Geography...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 March 2023
... were white Western fashion models (indicating that the three veiled women were neither white nor fashion models). While teaching a graduate seminar on gender and subjectivities at a university in a European capital, I showed my students a picture of two women seated on a bench and wearing light...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Studies 6 , no. 3 : 118 – 48 . Gökarıksel Banu , and Secor Anna . 2010b . “ Islamic-ness in the Life of a Commodity: Veiling Fashion in Turkey .” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 : 313 – 33 . Gökarıksel Banu , and Secor Anna . 2012 . “ ‘Even...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 58–90.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and autobiography by Ottoman and Western women travelers and writers. An earlier piece from her current project on contemporary commodifications of Muslim femininities was published as “Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail” ( Fashion Theory , 2007). Copyright © 2010...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 346–350.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the Modern Middle East.” The conference was jointly convened by Reina Lewis, professor of cultural studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and Yasmine Nachabe Taan, associate professor of art and design at LAU. Participants examined gender and colonial pasts through the lens...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of important issues, including ideology, politics, gender, and the dissemination of ideas through urban elite production. In particular, the extension of dress beyond the veil speaks to women’s studies, because it broadens the view of women’s fashion in a majority Muslim context and emphasizes the tensions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Arab and Muslim women know that our authenticity is based on unveiling our minds and not in veiling our faces” (El Saadawi 1997 : 97). The statement is made after Nawal argues that there is nothing in the Qurʾan that obliges women to veil themselves; she then describes the fashionable uses of the veil...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 91–117.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in majority-Muslim countries, the relationship between
piety and fashion is fraught, but in a different way than in settings
where Islam is a minority identity. As Gökarıksel and Secor (2009)
show for the veiling-fashion industry in Turkey, the veiled woman is
frequently...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 85–88.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and fi rmly embedded within larger discussions about
race and racial formation. Th erefore, it is uniquely positioned to stretch
these dialogues in vitally important ways.
Imagining Arab Womanhood:
Th e Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems,
and Belly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., and more generally proper bodies in diverse urban neighborhoods, I seek to contribute to this large body of literature. Similar to what Banu Gökarıksel ( 2012 ) has argued in regard to an emerging veiling fashion industry, in analyzing the intimate and commercialized encounters between women in beauty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to what Anna Secor (2002, 8) calls “regimes of veil-
ing” that differ according to places—“spatially realized sets of hegemonic rules and
norms regarding women’s veiling.”
32. This approach to veiling pertains to some extent to “Islamic fashion”
analyzed in other contexts. See...
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