Modest dress and veiling function as practical defenses of community

Evidence

The injunctions for women to veil, dress modestly, avoid eye con.. tact with men, and so on, all constitute the practical strategies through which the danger women’s sexuality poses to the sanctity of the Muslim community is deterred. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 781

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly resonates with ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — practical modesty strategies as community-defense mechanisms across cultures.
• XREF: connects to: Activists must consciously perform respectable dress when no civic niche exists — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1277; Seemingly superficial fashions fundamentally organize identity and social life — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 18