Abstract
The article explores women's clothing choices from a feminist geopolitical lens to comprehend mobility practices and power-relations across the contested city of Jerusalem. Building on 80 interviews with Palestinian and Israeli women, we explore the different ways in which women's clothing choices can be interpreted as a spatial practice that affects urban im/mobilities. First, we demonstrate the different ways through which cultural and religious norms and representations of the body are perceived as both excluding and restricting women from using certain areas in the city. Second, we suggest that clothing practices may enable movement and mobility that potentially undermine social-cultural norms. Thus, women's bodies and clothing can be a political site of difference and resistance that somewhat underscores the insurmountability of boundaries in the contested spaces of Jerusalem.
| Original language | American English |
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| Article number | 102090 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Political Geography |
| Volume | 76 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research; Ariane de Rothschild Program and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Horizon 2020: Marie Sklodowska-Curie [grant agreement No. 792762].
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Levi Eshkol Institute for Social , Economic and Political Research; Ariane de Rothschild Program and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Horizon 2020: Marie Sklodowska-Curie [grant agreement No. 792762 ].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords
- Embodied Spatial Practices
- Feminist geopolitics
- Jerusalem
- Mobility
- Women's clothing