نوع مقاله : علمی تخصصی
نویسنده
دانش آموخته دانشگاه تهران ، پردیس فارابی ، قم - ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
Female beauty has always been one of the cultural and social concepts shaped and redefined within the fields of power and meaning. This article, adopting a historical–social approach and a descriptive–analytical method, examines how female beauty has been redefined at the intersection of the two discourses of colonialism and Islam. The central question of this study is how modern colonialism and the Islamic religious tradition, each through its own specific mechanisms, have intervened in constructing the meaning and image of the Muslim woman’s body. Colonialism, relying on the system of Orientalism and a salvific gaze, often represented the Muslim woman as veiled, passive, or seductive, while imposing Western standards of beauty as the superior model. In contrast, the Islamic religious discourse, emphasizing notions such as modesty, chastity, and veiling, has articulated a form of beauty grounded in ethics, spirituality, and social order. The theoretical findings of the study—based on the integration of the perspectives of Foucault, Said, Mohanty, and Islamic teachings—demonstrate that female beauty in these two contexts has not been a natural phenomenon, but rather a powerful, variable, and discursive construct. Consequently, the Muslim woman, situated between the semantic systems of colonialism and religion, has been not only the object of representation but also the site of contestation among cultural, moral, and political powers
کلیدواژهها [English]
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