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“Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self

Voluntary unveiling by Muslim women has largely been overlooked within the context of Islamization. In Muslim-majority societies where the hijab is not legally imposed on women, Muslim women who do not veil or are “free hair” face significant pressure as they embody, in very visible terms, deviance...

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Main Author: Izharuddin, Alicia
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Published: University of Chicago Press
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BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/21777/
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spelling my.um.eprints.217772019-08-05T06:47:35Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/21777/ “Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self Izharuddin, Alicia BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Voluntary unveiling by Muslim women has largely been overlooked within the context of Islamization. In Muslim-majority societies where the hijab is not legally imposed on women, Muslim women who do not veil or are “free hair” face significant pressure as they embody, in very visible terms, deviance from normative Islamic practice. This article seeks to decenter the symbol of the hijab as the defining factor of these women’s lives by examining why Malay Muslim women remove the hijab and by reanimating a discussion on agency, failure, and reconstruction of self enacted through the practice of nonveiling. It examines the practices of the self that depart from local iterations of normative femininity and the processes of Islamization in Malaysia and how such processes inadvertently produce critical subjectivities and resistant bodies. University of Chicago Press Article PeerReviewed Izharuddin, Alicia “Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. ISSN 0097-9740
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topic BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
spellingShingle BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Izharuddin, Alicia
“Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self
description Voluntary unveiling by Muslim women has largely been overlooked within the context of Islamization. In Muslim-majority societies where the hijab is not legally imposed on women, Muslim women who do not veil or are “free hair” face significant pressure as they embody, in very visible terms, deviance from normative Islamic practice. This article seeks to decenter the symbol of the hijab as the defining factor of these women’s lives by examining why Malay Muslim women remove the hijab and by reanimating a discussion on agency, failure, and reconstruction of self enacted through the practice of nonveiling. It examines the practices of the self that depart from local iterations of normative femininity and the processes of Islamization in Malaysia and how such processes inadvertently produce critical subjectivities and resistant bodies.
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title “Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self
title_short “Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self
title_full “Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self
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title_full_unstemmed “Free Hair”: Narratives of Unveiling and the Reconstruction of Self
title_sort “free hair”: narratives of unveiling and the reconstruction of self
publisher University of Chicago Press
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/21777/
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