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Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation (Dress Cultures) by Reina Lewis, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasmine Nachabe Taan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 dresse

Who reads Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation (Dress Cultures)?

Author

Reina Lewis, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasmine Nachabe Taan

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts; Bloomsbury

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350135222

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Science