Dancing faith: contemporary Christian dance in Norway

Schuff, Hildegunn Marie T.

doi:10.1080/13537903.2019.1658939

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“…We illustrate how two types of embodied resistance are used to reinterpret and reconstruct alternative forms of religious femininity challenging their community's strict rules. Our case is particularly relevant for studying embodied resistance as JUFFE's resistance practices reflect similar processes among women in other communities worldwide (Alkhaled, 2021;Tønnessen Schuff, 2019). 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.…”

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

Wasserman,

Baikovich

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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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.

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