Fashion as embodied resistance: The case of Jewish ultraorthodox female entrepreneurs

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Varda Wasserman, Avital Baikovich
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Abstract

Drawing on the qualitative research of Jewish ultraorthodox female fashion entrepreneurs (JUFFE) in Israel, we examine how women's body regulations are collectively negotiated, challenged, and resisted. Our paper shows that, through the disruption of religious clothing and hairstyling, JUFFEs have challenged the patriarchal expectations of women's ideal type in their authoritative society and triggered various changes that allowed for the construction of alternative forms of femininity. Our contributions are twofold: First, we advance the understanding of the body as a site of resistance by exposing the analytical constituents of embodied resistance, namely, the forms of femininity constructed through embodied resistance, which demands are challenged, which types of modesty are resisted, which bodily means are used in women's resistance acts, and the implications of the resistance. By deepening our understanding of the constitutive resources of embodied resistance, we offer a more nuanced and detailed analysis of the various embodied ways and means through which women of religious communities may prompt changes regarding women's visibility and economic status. Second, we broaden the conceptualization of resistance's outcomes in authoritarian regimes by demonstrating how alternative religious femininities are constructed through the collective power of fashion. We present two manifestations of femininity: femininity as a marker of diversity (individualized femininity) and femininity as a marker of economic status (affluent femininity)—both deviate from the one prescribed by their leadership and community. We demonstrate how entrepreneurs' subversive messages are diffused through their clientele's bodies as the carriers of their subversive messages.

时尚是抵抗的体现:犹太极端正统女企业家的案例
通过对以色列犹太超正统女性时尚企业家(JUFFE)的定性研究,我们研究了女性身体法规是如何集体谈判、挑战和抵制的。我们的研究表明,通过对宗教服饰和发型的颠覆,JUFFEs挑战了权威社会中对女性理想类型的男权期望,并引发了各种变化,从而允许女性特质的替代形式的建构。我们的贡献是双重的:首先,我们通过揭示具身抵抗的分析成分来推进对身体作为抵抗场所的理解,即,通过具身抵抗构建的女性气质的形式,哪些要求受到挑战,哪些类型的谦虚受到抵制,哪些身体手段被用于女性抵抗行为,以及抵抗的含义。通过加深我们对具身抵抗的构成资源的理解,我们提供了更细致和详细的分析各种具身方式和手段,通过这些方式和手段,宗教团体的妇女可能会促进妇女的知名度和经济地位的变化。其次,我们通过展示另类宗教女性是如何通过时尚的集体力量构建起来的,拓宽了专制政权中抵抗结果的概念化。我们提出了女性气质的两种表现形式:作为多样性标志的女性气质(个性化的女性气质)和作为经济地位标志的女性气质(富裕的女性气质)——两者都偏离了她们的领导和社区所规定的。我们展示了企业家的颠覆性信息是如何通过作为其颠覆性信息载体的客户身体传播的。
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CiteScore
11.50
自引率
13.80%
发文量
139
期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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