Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures

✍ Scribed by Reina Lewis

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 416
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Reina Lewis analyzes Muslim modest clothing as fashion and shows how young Muslim women (with a focus on Britain, North America, and Turkey) are part of an emergent transnational youth subculture who use fashion to negotiate religion, identity, ethnicity, and mainstream consumer culture.

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