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

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.

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the aesthetic eighties; London, Paris, in the fighting nineties,

"Nights in Rome" and "Nights in Venice" are reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. cf. Pref.

The aesthetic experience; its meaning in a functional psychology ...

Thesis (PH.D)--University of Chicago, 1904.

The art of the exposition : personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, mural decorations, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition /

Mode of access: Internet.

The aesthetic purpose of Byzantine architecture, and other essays,

Mode of access: Internet.

The sense of beauty; being the outlines of aesthetic theory,

Mode of access: Internet.

The aesthetic letters, essays, and the philosophical letters of Schiller: tr.,

Mode of access: Internet.

The science of education, its general principles deduced from its aim, and The aesthetic revelation of the world,

Mode of access: Internet.

Tarjamat ḥayāt al-maghfūr la-hu al-imām al-kabīr wa-al-ʻalam al-shahīr al-faqīh al-akbar fī ʻaṣrih wa-al-imām al-awḥad fī miṣrih al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Rāfiʻī al-Fārūqī al-Ḥanafī Shaykh al-Sādah al-Ḥanafīyah wa-muftī al-diyār al-Miṣrīyah [microform] : mudhayyalah bi-aqwāl al-jarāʾid wa-marāthī al-ʻulamāʾ wa-al-udabāʾ fī al-aqṭār al-ʻArabīyah /

Microfilm.

Interrogation of Gender Identity: Aesthetic Consumption of Korean Television Dramas by Young Women in China

Given the popularity of Korean television dramas among various age groups in other countries, one would expect to see a similar pattern of consumption across different ages in China. Instead, we see high levels of consumption of Korean dramas by a very specific demographic. Why do young Chinese females consume Korean dramas at such high levels? I argue that young Chinese women’s heavy consumption of Korean dramas that portray a particular aesthetic of self and familial resolution may be explained by a need to redress contemporary psychological issues related to gendered self-identity. I posit that the identity formation processes of this particular demographic has been shaped by changes in family dynamics that stem from social and political restructuring in the 1980s, particularly the one-child policy. Thus, this thesis explores how the consumption of Korean dramas by young females in China may be understood as an implicit interrogation of gendered identity.

THE ECONOMIC, AESTHETIC, AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLES: TOWARD A THEORY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2016-06