Faegheh Shirazi
Biographic Data
| ID | 118748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faegheh Shirazi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faegheh |
| FAMILY NAME | Shirazi |
| SIGNATURE | SHIRAZI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resistance through clothing styles: Iranian young women’s body representation in public spaces
This qualitative research extends critical theorizing on clothing practices by exploring how young women’s clothing styles serve the function of resistance to formal hegemonic culture in Iran. Thirty young women, recruited through a snowball-sampling strategy, reported their lived experiences of wearing fashionable clothing styles in urban public spaces. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and analyzed by way of inductive thematic anal…
Veil
Hijab, or veil, is most commonly a reference to a form of modest clothing for Muslim women. All the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have a long tradition of women veiling. The veil can be a tactile object, a reference to an abstract form of moral and ethical behavior(s), or a reference to the institution of gender segregation. To delimit the meaning of the veil is a challenging if not impossible task. The semantics of the v…
The Veiling Issue in 20th Century Iran in Fashion and Society, Religion, and Government
This essay focuses on the Iranian woman's veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving multiple agendas. Sometimes the function of veiling is contradictory in that it can serve equally opposing political agendas
Halal and Religious Tourism Development in Mashhad, Iran
Mapping the political discourse of the Iranian Green Movement
This article problematizes five central themes regarding Qajar art in general and erotic representation in Qajar art in particular. It addresses the continued existence of the tropes that the Qajar era is not worthy of serious academic study; that concern with erotica at that time was a uniquely elite concern resulting from their debased morality; that erotica was a particularly Eastern, read Iranian, addiction in contradistinction to the morally…
Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety
From food products to fashions and cosmetics to children's toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as "halal" (permitted, lawful) or "Islamic" to Muslim consumers both in the West and in Muslim-majority nations. However, many of these products are not authentically Islamic or halal, and their producers have not necessarily created them to honor religious practice or sentiment. Instead, most "halal" commodities are profit-driven…
Women’s Sexuality: The Safavid Legacy
Introduction: Historical and contemporary issues in Islamic funerary practice
REVIEW - The Road to Kurdistan. Dir. and prod. Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri. 54 mns. Kurdish (Sorani dialect), Farsi with English subs. 2013
Heaven on earth: The reshaping and renaming of cemeteries in the Islamic Republic of Iran
REVIEW - Contandini, Anna and Claire Norton (eds.). The Renaissance and the Ottoman World. xiv + 303 pp. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013
The “Invention” of Lesbian Acts in Iran: Interpretative Moves, Hidden Assumptions, and Emerging Categories of Sexuality
This article describes and explains the current official status of lesbianism in Iran. Our central question is why the installation of an Islamic government in Iran resulted in extreme regulations of sexuality. The authors argue that rather than a clear adoption of "Islamic teaching on lesbianism," the current regime of sexuality was "invented" through a series of interpretative moves, adoption of hidden assumptions, and creation of sexual catego…
Death, the Great Equalizer: Memorializing Martyred (Shahid) Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the Islamic Republic of Iran the Bonyad-e Shahid (Martyrs Foundation) has recently added a new wing to its Museum of Martyrs. That addition is dedicated solely to female martyrs, to honor the “fallen ones.” The decision to build a women's section at the Museum of Martyrs reflects the Islamic Republic's new intention to project public images of modernization and gender equality. This article explores the concept of martyrs in Shiite tradition, …
Young Muslim women on the face veil (niqab): A tool of resistance in Europe but rejected in the United States
In order to understand Muslim women’s views on veiling in the West, one must take into account historical and socio-political factors such as a country’s colonial/national history, the nature of its immigration regime, the demographic composition of immigrant groups, and how the nation operationalizes concepts such as secularism and citizenship. While academic literature and media reports on young Muslim women in Europe indicate that wearing the …
Hybrid identities: American Muslim women speak
Drawing upon postcolonial theorizing on diasporic positionalities and Homi Bhabha's theorization on ‘third space’ and hybridity, this study shows how young American Muslim women engage in their own interpretations of Islam based on their individual needs and situations. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 respondents in Ohio and Texas in order to gain insights into the identities of American Muslim women with immigrant backgroun…
Questioning the veil, open letters to Muslim women
Questioning the veil, open letters to Muslim women, by Marnia Lazreg, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2009, 156 pp., $22.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-691-13818-3 We are living in a much more
Velvet Jihad: Muslim women's quiet resistance to Islamic fundamentalism
There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational community intent on growing women's rights in the Middle East. There is a large disparity between a Muslim woman's role according to the Qur'a…
Men’s Facial Hair in Islam: A Matter of Interpretation
The Sofreh: Comfort and Community among Women in Iran
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (review)
Marilyn Booth. May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. 460 pp. ISBN 0-520-22419-1, $65.00 cloth; ISBN 0-520-22420-5 $35.00 paper
The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture
Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
From Islam to Confucianism to Voodoo, dress plays a pivotal role in religious expression. This book investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures - from Africa and South America to Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Caribbean. In some of these cultures, dress is part of a system of social control. Gender issues feature prominently since the control of female sexuality is often of gr…
Young Muslim women on the face veil (niqab): A tool of resistance in Europe but rejected in the United States
In order to understand Muslim women’s views on veiling in the West, one must take into account historical and socio-political factors such as a country’s colonial/national history, the nature of its immigration regime, the demographic composition of immigrant groups, and how the nation operationalizes concepts such as secularism and citizenship. While academic literature and media reports on young Muslim women in Europe indicate that wearing the …
Hybrid identities: American Muslim women speak
Drawing upon postcolonial theorizing on diasporic positionalities and Homi Bhabha's theorization on ‘third space’ and hybridity, this study shows how young American Muslim women engage in their own interpretations of Islam based on their individual needs and situations. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 respondents in Ohio and Texas in order to gain insights into the identities of American Muslim women with immigrant backgroun…
The “Invention” of Lesbian Acts in Iran: Interpretative Moves, Hidden Assumptions, and Emerging Categories of Sexuality
This article describes and explains the current official status of lesbianism in Iran. Our central question is why the installation of an Islamic government in Iran resulted in extreme regulations of sexuality. The authors argue that rather than a clear adoption of "Islamic teaching on lesbianism," the current regime of sexuality was "invented" through a series of interpretative moves, adoption of hidden assumptions, and creation of sexual catego…
The Sofreh: Comfort and Community among Women in Iran
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Resistance through clothing styles: Iranian young women’s body representation in public spaces
This qualitative research extends critical theorizing on clothing practices by exploring how young women’s clothing styles serve the function of resistance to formal hegemonic culture in Iran. Thirty young women, recruited through a snowball-sampling strategy, reported their lived experiences of wearing fashionable clothing styles in urban public spaces. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and analyzed by way of inductive thematic anal…
Questioning the veil, open letters to Muslim women
Questioning the veil, open letters to Muslim women, by Marnia Lazreg, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2009, 156 pp., $22.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-691-13818-3 We are living in a much more
Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
From Islam to Confucianism to Voodoo, dress plays a pivotal role in religious expression. This book investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures - from Africa and South America to Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Caribbean. In some of these cultures, dress is part of a system of social control. Gender issues feature prominently since the control of female sexuality is often of gr…
The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture
May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (review)
Marilyn Booth. May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. 460 pp. ISBN 0-520-22419-1, $65.00 cloth; ISBN 0-520-22420-5 $35.00 paper
The Sofreh: Comfort and Community among Women in Iran
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Men’s Facial Hair in Islam: A Matter of Interpretation
Velvet Jihad: Muslim women's quiet resistance to Islamic fundamentalism
There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational community intent on growing women's rights in the Middle East. There is a large disparity between a Muslim woman's role according to the Qur'a…
Young Muslim women on the face veil (niqab): A tool of resistance in Europe but rejected in the United States
In order to understand Muslim women’s views on veiling in the West, one must take into account historical and socio-political factors such as a country’s colonial/national history, the nature of its immigration regime, the demographic composition of immigrant groups, and how the nation operationalizes concepts such as secularism and citizenship. While academic literature and media reports on young Muslim women in Europe indicate that wearing the …
Hybrid identities: American Muslim women speak
Drawing upon postcolonial theorizing on diasporic positionalities and Homi Bhabha's theorization on ‘third space’ and hybridity, this study shows how young American Muslim women engage in their own interpretations of Islam based on their individual needs and situations. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 respondents in Ohio and Texas in order to gain insights into the identities of American Muslim women with immigrant backgroun…
Questioning the veil, open letters to Muslim women
Questioning the veil, open letters to Muslim women, by Marnia Lazreg, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2009, 156 pp., $22.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-691-13818-3 We are living in a much more
The “Invention” of Lesbian Acts in Iran: Interpretative Moves, Hidden Assumptions, and Emerging Categories of Sexuality
This article describes and explains the current official status of lesbianism in Iran. Our central question is why the installation of an Islamic government in Iran resulted in extreme regulations of sexuality. The authors argue that rather than a clear adoption of "Islamic teaching on lesbianism," the current regime of sexuality was "invented" through a series of interpretative moves, adoption of hidden assumptions, and creation of sexual catego…
Death, the Great Equalizer: Memorializing Martyred (Shahid) Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the Islamic Republic of Iran the Bonyad-e Shahid (Martyrs Foundation) has recently added a new wing to its Museum of Martyrs. That addition is dedicated solely to female martyrs, to honor the “fallen ones.” The decision to build a women's section at the Museum of Martyrs reflects the Islamic Republic's new intention to project public images of modernization and gender equality. This article explores the concept of martyrs in Shiite tradition, …
Introduction: Historical and contemporary issues in Islamic funerary practice
REVIEW - The Road to Kurdistan. Dir. and prod. Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri. 54 mns. Kurdish (Sorani dialect), Farsi with English subs. 2013
Heaven on earth: The reshaping and renaming of cemeteries in the Islamic Republic of Iran
REVIEW - Contandini, Anna and Claire Norton (eds.). The Renaissance and the Ottoman World. xiv + 303 pp. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013
Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety
From food products to fashions and cosmetics to children's toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as "halal" (permitted, lawful) or "Islamic" to Muslim consumers both in the West and in Muslim-majority nations. However, many of these products are not authentically Islamic or halal, and their producers have not necessarily created them to honor religious practice or sentiment. Instead, most "halal" commodities are profit-driven…
Women’s Sexuality: The Safavid Legacy
Halal and Religious Tourism Development in Mashhad, Iran
Mapping the political discourse of the Iranian Green Movement
This article problematizes five central themes regarding Qajar art in general and erotic representation in Qajar art in particular. It addresses the continued existence of the tropes that the Qajar era is not worthy of serious academic study; that concern with erotica at that time was a uniquely elite concern resulting from their debased morality; that erotica was a particularly Eastern, read Iranian, addiction in contradistinction to the morally…
Veil
Hijab, or veil, is most commonly a reference to a form of modest clothing for Muslim women. All the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have a long tradition of women veiling. The veil can be a tactile object, a reference to an abstract form of moral and ethical behavior(s), or a reference to the institution of gender segregation. To delimit the meaning of the veil is a challenging if not impossible task. The semantics of the v…
The Veiling Issue in 20th Century Iran in Fashion and Society, Religion, and Government
This essay focuses on the Iranian woman's veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving multiple agendas. Sometimes the function of veiling is contradictory in that it can serve equally opposing political agendas
Resistance through clothing styles: Iranian young women’s body representation in public spaces
This qualitative research extends critical theorizing on clothing practices by exploring how young women’s clothing styles serve the function of resistance to formal hegemonic culture in Iran. Thirty young women, recruited through a snowball-sampling strategy, reported their lived experiences of wearing fashionable clothing styles in urban public spaces. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and analyzed by way of inductive thematic anal…
History (15 works) · Islamic Studies and History (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Islam (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works)