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Secular Fashion, Religious Dress, and Modest Ambiguity: The Visual Ethics of Indonesian Fashion‐Veiling
Author(s) -
Bucar Elizabeth M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12132
Subject(s) - indonesian , ambiguity , islam , context (archaeology) , sociology , aesthetics , gender studies , art , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
This essay offers resources for the development of visual ethics by exploring Islamic fashion‐veiling in one context: contemporary Indonesia. After providing a methodological framework and historical background for the case study, the moral discourse of two aesthetic authorities is discussed via a fashion blogger and print advice literature. The essay identifies (1) how the practice of fashion‐veiling generates norms, (2) what is defined as morally valuable in this practice and why, and (3) how this practice both offers opportunities for the critique and the reinforcement of gendered norms.