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... offshoot Instagram page, this article examines digital repertoires of Muslim women’s self-styling as both pious and liberal. While the women-only Facebook group reproduced existing religious norms in contemporary language, the Instagram platform generated self-modulated performances of fashion and fitness...

... against the violence and extremism of the Islamic State serves to eschew a deeper understanding of their political and ideological motivations. Although they do not fit into the stereotypical category of oppressed Muslim women in need of saving, Kurdish women too are the subject of misrepresentation in US...

... lifestyle (Bilici 1999), tesettür-producers manufacture and market covered swimwear, bridal gowns, sportswear, suits, and maternity clothes. The styles, colors, and cuts of this apparel vary greatly, from bold and close-fitting to more conservative looks. Whether and to what extent...

... presence and how much the group affected the identity they were portraying to the world. From this recognition the idea of photographing each girl by herself emerged. The room was a metaphor, an extension of the girl, but also the girl seemed to be part of the room, to fit in just like everything else...

... in fitness and exercise—this time with a focus on Istanbul. To extend its populist appeal to traditional, religious, rural, and working-class constituencies, the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party municipality expanded municipally owned public gyms in the mid-1990s and made them more accessible to working-class...

... country, Yugoslavia, rather than with Croatia, where her home now lies, because “being just in Croatia would feel too confining.” As a “mixed” person, she suddenly found she did not fit into any of the categories be- ing carved out by ethnic nationalists and war. And she insists on her right...

... who would fit into normative national self-determination and circuits of global capital. In the first instance, this involves a social narrative of gender and sexual roles inscribed into national scripts of “tradition” and an imagined precolonial cultural purity. In the latter instance, this involves...

... the term Islamicate “to highlight a complex of attitudes and practices that pertain to cultures and societies that live by various versions of the religion Islam.” When studying the culture of mahremiyet , understanding Istanbul as an Islamicate context fits well with the diverse Muslimhoods of my...

... and activist, in her influential book The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade , argues that it is a form of slavery, as it “fits the definition of slavery in the slavery convention very well since the child is completely within the control of her owner/husband.” Jeffreys does...

.... Islamic Barbies, as the Guardian describes these dolls (Tatchell 2004 ), are products commodifying Islamic identity. Although their clothes, a hijab and an abaya , fit their presentations as Islamic dolls, their origins as blonde and cosmopolitan copies of Barbie dolls do not. While the Fulla doll...

.... Men planned and executed coups even though women and everybody else suffered from them. The July 15 coup was no exception. Both the coup makers and those against whom they attempted to wage the coup were patriarchal men who shaped women’s interests as they saw fit. We do not know the exact details...

.... In contrast with the male sculptures, her small ceramic women figurines, many seated on chairs curved to fit the body, are serene and even whimsical. The 2010 Poet languidly reclines on an elongated chair, feet propped up on a footstool as she bends over her writing. The 2009 Woman on a Rock is a green...

... fitting to mention here some of the ideas within transnational feminisms, in addition to gesturing toward the new insurrections as a source for some of our most recent ideas and actions. In considering political behavior, this amalgam has had a profound effect on my thinking. In general, I...

... the Safidge Health Engine was an imported product, Cicurel department store as its agent had local knowledge. Its ad depicts a woman working on her body in the privacy of her home, where she can gauge the progress of the new machinery by the fit of her clothing or by compliments from her spouse and family...

... of families and to explain how they fit into the larger society. These studies, as pointed out by Seteney Shami in her essay on Jordan, were linked to development and to assessing the degree to which the family could be part of the modernization of the region. Like earlier colonial models, these studies saw...

... allows one to question the inclusion and exclusion in the canon of literature and to understand better why some voices have been marginalized because they did not fit the ideology of the dominant culture. Elsadda, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo...

...  113 Islamic women’s groups, and her careful refusal to use these women to generalize about women’s Islamic activism is well taken. Still it would be useful to have a sense of where al-Hilal and its members fit into the landscape of women’s Islamic organizations. More significantly, however...

... such ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth- to thirteenth-century Islamic eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two institutions central to their social order—kinship and law—shaped their lives” (2). Her study contends that a girl’s or woman’s first marriage had...

...Tarek El-Ariss The stakes of Najmabadi’s research go to the heart of the formation of modern subjectivity in a cultural and historical setting that does not fit neatly into the way modernity has been understood and theorized. Professing Selves is not merely a study of the discursive production...

...-jalis, published in Alexandria and catering to its local readers, used wording quite specific to women’s needs. Printemps Department Store promoted its services to secluded Muslim women; Madame Massart offered a special salon for women where they could be fitted and try on clothes; another woman...