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Pious Fashion

How Muslim Women Dress

Liz Bucar

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ISBN 9780674976160

Publication Date: 09/04/2017

248 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

21 color illus.

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Preface
Introduction
1: Hijab in Tehran
2: Jilbab in Yogyakarta
3: Tesettür in Istanbul
4: Pious Fashion across Cultures
Epilogue
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index

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At Religion News Service, read Elizabeth Bucar’s critique of Democrats’ well-intended plan to reverse a ban on hats on the U.S. House floor—unnecessary, she argues, because a hijab (as worn by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)) is qualitatively different from a hat
At The Conversation, read Bucar’s “three things we can learn from contemporary Muslim women’s fashion”
At InStyle, read Bucar’s thoughts on the time and attention that observant religious women devote to their (covered) hair
At the Huffington Post, read about the persecution and intimidation faced by Muslim women who wear “burkinis” (modest swimming attire)
Listen to Bucar discuss Pious Fashion on The Classical Ideas Podcast
Read a News@Northeastern discussion with Bucar about news that the Toronto Raptors basketball team have partnered with Nike to offer team-branded hijabs
At the Atlantic, read an excerpt from Pious Fashion and, on Instagram, view photographs from the book of fashionistas around the globe who have made “modest dress” their own
At Rewire.News, read Bucar’s lament that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018 exhibit “Heavenly Bodies,” intended to “examine fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism,” missed the mark entirely
At Zócalo Public Square, read Bucar’s discussion of the complexities of “pious fashion” in Iran, and how minor sartorial choices can be loud cultural comments that invoke political change
Read Bucar’s Los Angeles Times essay on the increasing mainstream popularity of “Islamic style”
On ABC Radio National’s Blueprint for Living, listen to two young Muslim women describe how fashion intersects with their religion and culture while studying abroad in Australia versus in their native Oman, and hear Bucar explain why “fashion is never merely clothing”
Read Bucar’s contribution to the online symposium “Decolonizing Narratives, Denaturalizing Modernity” at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame) blog Contending Modernities
Listen to Bucar discuss how she navigates religion, secularism, feminism, and ethics in her own life and work on the podcast Conversations with Creative Women
Listen to a wide-ranging interview with Bucar on the Religion and Its Publics podcast The Square
Listen to a New Books Network podcast interview with Bucar
At Teen Vogue, read Bucar’s profile of Egyptian-American Muslim and feminist activist Mona Eltahawy
Read a conversation with Bucar about Pious Fashion at the HUP Blog

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