WMST 222 - Fashion, Gender, and Politics in the Islamic World

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as RELI 222) This course explores concepts of gender and the regulation of the female body within the historical and contemporary Islamic world through the lens of fashion and dress. We will explore how issues of dress, in particular the concept of the veil, have been framed as social, moral, religious, and political conflicts from the earliest period of the Islamic community. The readings are drawn from a wide variety of texts and sources, including: Islamic law, contemporary ethnography, anthropology, feminist critiques, orientalism, and histories. Ms. Muravchick.

Two 75-minute periods.