Fashioning the Modern Middle East : Gender, Body, and Nation Paperback / softback
Edited by Reina (London College of Fashion, UK) Lewis, Yasmine (Lebanese American University, Lebanon) Nachabe Taan
Part of the Dress Cultures series
Paperback / softback
Description
In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity.
Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, recount the role of the visible elite body in campaigns for gender and social emancipation, dress histories concerning early nationalist women and men, and legal frameworks used by those who seek to control the movement of gendered bodies.
The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East. Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, Fashioning the Modern Middle East contains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, photography and gender.
Bringing forward new primary material and re-investigating extant sources from new perspectives, this is the essential introduction to the role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 83 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/07/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350135215
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 83 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/07/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350135215
