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I am Just Doing my Bit to Promote Modesty: Niqabis' self-portraits on photo-sharing websites.
- Source :
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Feminist Media Studies . Nov2013, Vol. 13 Issue 5, p781-790. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- In this article, I discuss the main arguments that deal with mainstream media representations of niqabis in the West. In distinguishing between such representations of niqabis and their self-representations distributed online on photo-sharing sites, it is my purpose to highlight the entirely different visual rhetoric that emerges from the latter by pointing to various aspects of the self-portraits. After giving an overview of the literature that discusses the niqab, and indicating that niqabis' voices have been entirely neglected, I analyze several self-portraits of two niqabis located online in reference to a theoretical framework offered by Kati Caetano who has traced established ways of representing Muslim women in journalistic photography. Finally, I argue that niqabis disrupt the normalized associations of the niqab with passivity, otherness, and violence by establishing intimacy with the audience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14680777
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Feminist Media Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 91735486
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2013.838358