Modest fashion : styling bodies, mediating faith / edited by Reina Lewis.
Contributor(s): Lewis, Reina.
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BookSeries: Dress cultures. Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780857722256 (e-book).Subject(s): Women's clothing -- Symbolic aspects | Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects | Modesty | FashionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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).
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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