The veiled respondents' accounts of wearing hijab conform to the pro-veiling gender discourse explicated above. Many of the veiled women invoke various sorts of religious imagery and theological edicts when asked about their motivations for veiling. (Bartkowski, To Veil or Not to Veil, 2000)
In addition to providing religious rationales for wearing the veil, many of the women who wear hijab also invoke the discourse of masculine-feminine difference to defend the merits of veiling. For several women, the idea of masculine hyper sexuality and feminine vulnerability to the male sex drive is crucial to this essential its rationale for veiling. (Bartkowski, To Veil or Not to Veil, 2000)
This hijab-as-liberator rationale for veiling was repeated …show more content…
Muslim women consider it a part of worship and a very serious issue. In some countries just as United States, Hijab is considered as freedom of religion and freedom of expression. Many non-Muslims consider it as a political statement because such clothing collection has become a potent indicator of identity. Some argue that it is a sign of Islamic fundamentalism, or somewhere it is consider as an “opperession”. (Hijab: Veiled in Controversy, 2013)
New collections and trends are emerging because of the Islamic fashion industry. As headscarf is emerging and there are some also other people who are looking for modern dressing rather than classical ones. Various well-known fashion designers generate new collections stimulated from Islamic clothing and even the burqa. In the fashion world, a famous name Victoria Beckham who is one of the recent names of the fashion world, spectacular bonnets in her 2011 winter collection. She was also motivated from the English-style street fashion of Muslim women in another collection. (KAVAKÇI, …show more content…
He was very rude to all of the girls, always whistling and staring at them. One day, I found myself alone in the hallway with him. I was very nervous because I had to walk by him. But because I was wearing the hijab, he looked down when I walked past. He did not show that respect to the unveiled girls. (Bartkowski, To Veil or Not to Veil, 2000)
One would be blind not to see that numerous women are wearing the hijab without being forced to do it by anybody. .... Before denouncing the hijab, reductively conceived as a symbol of oppression-the women wearing it being found to contradict what are supposed to be their interests and the truth about themselves as told by others-one should take some time to reflect on these women's motivation. (Berger, 1998)
The "double game," then, implies a double veil. For where there is duplicity, there is always a fold. And indeed if woman's fetishistic exhibition hides the veil that hides the sex, it means that at least two modes of veiling are at work, apparently contradicting but really reinforcing each other. (Berger,
In addition to providing religious rationales for wearing the veil, many of the women who wear hijab also invoke the discourse of masculine-feminine difference to defend the merits of veiling. For several women, the idea of masculine hyper sexuality and feminine vulnerability to the male sex drive is crucial to this essential its rationale for veiling. (Bartkowski, To Veil or Not to Veil, 2000)
This hijab-as-liberator rationale for veiling was repeated …show more content…
Muslim women consider it a part of worship and a very serious issue. In some countries just as United States, Hijab is considered as freedom of religion and freedom of expression. Many non-Muslims consider it as a political statement because such clothing collection has become a potent indicator of identity. Some argue that it is a sign of Islamic fundamentalism, or somewhere it is consider as an “opperession”. (Hijab: Veiled in Controversy, 2013)
New collections and trends are emerging because of the Islamic fashion industry. As headscarf is emerging and there are some also other people who are looking for modern dressing rather than classical ones. Various well-known fashion designers generate new collections stimulated from Islamic clothing and even the burqa. In the fashion world, a famous name Victoria Beckham who is one of the recent names of the fashion world, spectacular bonnets in her 2011 winter collection. She was also motivated from the English-style street fashion of Muslim women in another collection. (KAVAKÇI, …show more content…
He was very rude to all of the girls, always whistling and staring at them. One day, I found myself alone in the hallway with him. I was very nervous because I had to walk by him. But because I was wearing the hijab, he looked down when I walked past. He did not show that respect to the unveiled girls. (Bartkowski, To Veil or Not to Veil, 2000)
One would be blind not to see that numerous women are wearing the hijab without being forced to do it by anybody. .... Before denouncing the hijab, reductively conceived as a symbol of oppression-the women wearing it being found to contradict what are supposed to be their interests and the truth about themselves as told by others-one should take some time to reflect on these women's motivation. (Berger, 1998)
The "double game," then, implies a double veil. For where there is duplicity, there is always a fold. And indeed if woman's fetishistic exhibition hides the veil that hides the sex, it means that at least two modes of veiling are at work, apparently contradicting but really reinforcing each other. (Berger,