CHIC RESISTANCE - WLUML

CHIC RESISTANCE

Women, Fashion, and Politics in Iran

Shirin Abdmolaei

Chic Resistance: Women, Fashion, and Politics in Iran Author: Shirin Abdmolaei First Edition: 2019 Copyright ? Women Living Under Muslim Laws

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Cover art: Sally Page setting: Setenay Mutlu Adisonmez ISBN: 978-1-907024-22-1(ebook)

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About WLUML

Table of Contents

Page number V

Dress Codes and Modes:

Politics of Women's Clothing in Muslim Contexts

X

Acknowledgement

XVI

About the Author

XVII

Introduction: Going to Iran

1

Women and the Politics of Dress in Iran

Chapter 1:

14

Clothing as a Political Institution

Chapter 2:

23

The Politics of Dress, Gender, and Resistance in

Europe and North America

Chapter 3:

40

Dress, Gender, and Nation-Building in the Age of

Modernization in the Middle East and Muslim Contexts

Chapter 4:

65

Wearing Ideology: Re-Veiling and Re-Making New

Muslim Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Chapter 5:

91

Alternative Fashion and New Identities

Conclusion:

116

Dressing Women's Bodies and the Continuous

Struggle for Autonomy

Postscript:

120

Beyond Alternative Fashion:

Public Unveiling and Civil Disobedience

References

127

Glossary

136

Index

137

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