Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

Fashion and Dress Culture

Muslim Women in the Bosnian Crucible

Exotic tales and dramatic details about Muslim women’s views of Bosnian society are uncommon. In fact, few Muslim women in Bosnia are overtly Islamic in appearance or action. Rather, they blend into a secularized society in which Islamic heritage provides traditions and values, not dogma. Despite this assimilation, 12 Bosnian women relate 3 different but connected features of their lives: the e...

Dress Nicer = Know More? Young Children’s Knowledge Attribution and Selective Learning Based on How Others Dress

This research explored whether children judge the knowledge state of others and selectively learn novel information from them based on how they dress. The results indicated that 4- and 6-year-olds identified a formally dressed individual as more knowledgeable about new things in general than a casually dressed one (Study 1). Moreover, children displayed an overall preference to seek help from a...

A qualitative study on how Muslim women of Moroccan descent approach antenatal anomaly screening.

OBJECTIVE to extend the knowledge on Muslim women's approach of antenatal anomaly screening. DESIGN qualitative interview study with pregnant Muslim women from Moroccan origin. SETTING one midwifery practice in a medium-sized city near Amsterdam participated in the study. PARTICIPANTS twelve pregnant Muslim women who live in a high density immigrant area and who attended primary midwives ...

Fashion and passion: marketing sex to women

Against a backdrop of a ‘pornographication’ of mainstream media and the emergence of a more heavily sexualized culture, women are increasingly targeted as sexual consumers. In the UK, the success of TV shows like Sex and the City and the ‘fashion ‘n’ passion’ of sex emporia like Ann Summers suggests that late twentieth century discourses which foregrounded female pleasure have crystallised in a...