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Beyond Fashion Tips and Hijab Tutorials:  The Aesthetic Style of Islamic Lifestyle Videos

TitleBeyond Fashion Tips and Hijab Tutorials:  The Aesthetic Style of Islamic Lifestyle Videos
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsPeterson, KM
JournalFilm Criticism
Abstract

Among young women, lifestyle videos have become extremely popular on YouTube, and a similar trend has emerged among young Muslim women who share modest fashion tips and discuss religious topics. This paper examines the videos of two prominent Muslim women on YouTube, Amena Khan and Dina Torkia, in an effort to understand how they engage with aesthetic styles in order to work against Western stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed and lacking individuality. Islamic lifestyle videos might appear to simply promote a vacuous focus on appearances, but I argue that it is through the aesthetics and affects of these videos that Amena and Dina do political work to redistribute the sensible and shift what is considered attractive, beautiful and pleasurable in Western society. Additionally, the hybrid aesthetic styles and affects of authenticity and pleasure, which are possible in digital spaces like YouTube, offer Amena and Dina the chance to control their own visual images and to resist being coopted as icons of Western freedom or Islamic piety.

URLhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/304337122_Beyond_Fashion_Tips_and_Hijab_Tutorials_The_Aesthetic_Style_of_Islamic_Lifestyle_Videos