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Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 1, 44-65 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243204269716
© 2005 Sociologists for Women in Society

Dress Matters

Change and Continuity in the Dress Practices of Bosnian Muslim Refugee Women

Kimberly Huisman

University of Maine

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

University of Southern California

Dress serves as a discursive daily practice of gender, and this article explains the dress practices of Bosnian Muslim refugee women living in Vermont. These dress practices tend toward elaborate, carefully cultivated styles for hair, makeup, and dress. Based on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and secondary historical sources, the authors seek to explain the meanings and practice of these dress practices. They argue that gendered dress practices reflect agentic processes that are situated within the flow of time and are rooted in relational processes that occur at the macrostructural level of history and nation and at the micro world of social interaction and lived experience.

Key Words: Bosnian Muslim refugee women • gender • dress • agency


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