Veiled Meanings: Young British Muslim women and the negotiation of differences [1]

1 March 1999

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Gender, Place & Culture

Vol. 6 (1) , 5-26
https://doi.org/10.1080/09663699925123

Abstract

This article draws upon in-depth discussions conducted with young British Muslim women to explore the ways in which embodied differences are negotiated in the construction and contestation of identity. The author argues that dress is an overdetermined signifier for Muslim women, illustrating the role of clothing, particularly the veil, in the discursive formation of 'Muslim women'. The author explores some of the possibilities for reworking dress to create alternative femininities within different spaces, focusing in particular on the construction of 'hybrid' identities and the articulation of 'new' Muslim identities.

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