Fashioning the modern Middle East : gender, body, and nation / edited by Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Reina, 1963- editor.

Taan, Yasmine, editor.

Series:

Dress cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Middle East.

Clothing and dress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2021]

Summary:

"Explores the role of the dressed and undressed body in the making of the modern Middle East, from perspectives such as nation, gender, post-colonialism and historiography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Mapping Modern Bodies in the Middle East: Introduction Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan

2. Fashion and the camera: Istanbul in the late Ottoman Empire Nancy Micklewright

3. Training Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in Representations of Slaves, Cairo and Khartoum, 1882-1892 Eve M

. Troutt Powell

4. Patronage, Taste, and Power: Slave, Manumitted, and Free Subjects in the Fashioning of Middle Eastern Modernity Reina Lewis

5. Constantin Guys and the Painters of Global Modernity Mary Roberts

6. Looking at/as Nudes: A Study of a Space of Imagination Kirsten Scheid

7. Another Look: ?The Body that Is,? Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Post-Ottoman Egypt Wilson Chacko Jacob

8. The Arab Garçonne: Being Simultaneously Modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt Yasmine Nachabe Taan

9. The Photograph, the Dress, and the Conjugalization of the Family Afsaneh Najmabadi

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350135239

1350135232

9781350135222

1350135224

OCLC:

1238133293