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

Other author Lewis, Reina, 1963- editor.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Descriptionxx, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesDress cultures
Dress cultures. ^A1171922
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).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013474025
ISBN1780763824 (hbk.)
ISBN9781780763828 (hbk.)
ISBN1780763832 (pbk.)
ISBN9781780763835 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GT1720 .M634 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold