Veiling In Fashion: Space And The Hijab In Minority Communities Hardcover

Anna-Mari Almila

Greater understanding is needed of veiling as fashion in the everyday lives of Muslim women in minority communities. Veiling in Fashion enters the worlds of women who wear the hijab, both as an aspect of their religious observance and as a fashion statement. It uses rich ethnographic investigation of everyday veiling practices among Muslim women in the city of Helsinki as a lens through which to reflect on and advance understanding of matters concerning Muslim dress in the contexts of international Muslim minorities. The book provides an innovative approach to studying veiling by connecting varied realms of practice, demonstrating how domains as apparently separate as fashion, materiality, city spaces, private life, religious beliefs, and cosmopolitan social conditions are all tightly bound up together in ways that only a sensitive multi-disciplinary approach can reveal. It will appeal to scholars and students in fashion, gender, sociology of religion, material cultures, and the construction of space.

1784539236

English

Misc - United Book Distributor

August 15, 2017

Anna-Mari Almila is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of Arts London, UK. Her research interests include the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments; fashion globalization and the history of fashion studies; the historical/political construction of urban spaces; and wine and gender. Her edited books (with David Inglis) include The Globalization of Wine (forthcoming), The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2016).