在第一本书中，这些文章阐述了（未穿）衣服的身体在现代中东形成中的关键作用，揭示了民族、性别、现代性和后现代性的当代斗争。主要跨学科学者的贡献，探索了性别代表、摄影、服装和视觉文化，叙述了可见的精英团体在性别和社会解放运动中的作用，关于早期民族主义男女的服装历史，以及那些试图控制性别团体运动的人所使用的法律框架。其结果是对一个历史时期和文化景观的丰富描绘，将服饰和视觉文化带回现代中东的历史叙事中。
认识到后殖民主义的多重现代性、多重帝国主义和多样的地区经验，《塑造现代中东》包含了一系列对时尚研究、中东研究、人类学、摄影和性别研究的学生非常宝贵的理论框架。提出了新的原始材料，并从新的角度重新研究了现存的来源，这是对穿着和不穿着衣服的身体在现代中东形成中所起作用的必要介绍。
Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation (Dress Cultures)
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.
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