Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
| dc.contributor.advisor | Becker, Heike | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hendricks, Hibah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-12T09:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-20T12:21:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-02-12T09:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-20T12:21:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | Magister Artium - MA | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores how the hijab fashion market has emerged in Cape Town and how Capetonian Muslim women are appropriating hijab fashion as a means of redefining themselves as Muslim South Africans instead of ?Cape Malays?, the ethnic label given to Muslims in the Western Cape during the apartheid era. I argue that through self stylisation Cape Malay women are performatively rejecting the ethnicisation of Islam during apartheid. I show that ?Cape Malay? women are using hijab fashion to perform their ?Muslimness? in order to claim a positive and legitimate spot in the ?rainbow nation? as Muslims as a religious-cultural category, and not as ?Malays?, an ethnic category, while simultaneously claiming their belonging to the global umma (Muslim community) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/9480 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Muslim women | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cape Malay | en_US |
| dc.subject | Islamic wear | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hijab fashion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Self stylisation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Performance | en_US |
| dc.subject | Belonging | en_US |
| dc.subject | International Umma | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
| dc.title | Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |