Fashioning the Modern Middle East

Gender, Body, and Nation

Reina Lewis, Yasmine Nachabe Taan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-13521-5 (ISBN)

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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 dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East.

Reina Lewis is Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She is author of Muslim Fashion (2015) and Rethinking Orientalism (2004), and editor of Modest Fashion (2013) and Gender, Modernity and Liberty (with Nancy Micklewright, 2006). Reina Lewis co-edits with Elizabeth Wilson the Dress Cultures Series at Bloomsbury Visual Arts. Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate Professor of Art & Design at the Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Mapping Modern Bodies in the Middle East: Introduction
Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan

2. Fashion and the camera: Istanbul in the late Ottoman Empire
Nancy Micklewright

3. Training Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in Representations of Slaves, Cairo and Khartoum, 1882-1892
Eve M. Troutt Powell

4. Patronage, Taste, and Power: Slave, Manumitted, and Free Subjects in the Fashioning of Middle Eastern Modernity
Reina Lewis

5. Constantin Guys and the Painters of Global Modernity
Mary Roberts

6. Looking at/as Nudes: A Study of a Space of Imagination
Kirsten Scheid

7. Another Look: “The Body that Is,” Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Post-Ottoman Egypt
Wilson Chacko Jacob

8. The Arab Garçonne: Being Simultaneously Modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt
Yasmine Nachabe Taan

9. The Photograph, the Dress, and the Conjugalization of the Family
Afsaneh Najmabadi

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Dress Cultures
Zusatzinfo	83 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 246 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-13521-6 / 1350135216
ISBN-13	978-1-350-13521-5 / 9781350135215
Zustand	Neuware