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  Veil definition for the clothing industry and consumers of veils
The boushiya is a veil that may be worn over a headscarf, it covers the entire face and is made of a sheer fabric so the wearer is able to see through it.
Veils pinned to hats have survived the changing fashions of the centuries and are still common today on occasions when women wear hats.
However, these veils are generally made of netting or another material not actually designed to hide the face from view, even if the veil can be pulled down, which is not always the case.
www.apparelsearch.com /Definitions/Clothing/veil_description_veils.htm   (780 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mask fetishism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A similar fetish for women wearing Muslim or harem veils is veil fetishism.
Veil fetishism is a sexual desire for women wearing veils over their faces.
Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Sigmund Freud though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a persons body.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mask-fetishism   (329 words)

  
 Veil - CSWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sometimes a veil of this type was draped over and pinned to the bonnet or hat of a woman in mourning, especially at the funeral and during the period of "high mourning".
Veils pinned to hats have survived the changing fashions of the centuries and are still common today on occasions when women wear hats.
The boushiya is a veil that may be worn over a headscarf, it covers the entire face and is made of a sheer fabric so the wearer is able to see through it.
www.craft-searcher.net /wiki/index.php/Veil   (728 words)

  
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This understanding of fetishism is informed by the work of the postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha who in rereading the work of Edward Said on "Orientalism" and Frantz Fanon on the problematics of repesentation in the colonial context, redefines the stereotype or fetish.
In this context, female veiling is formulated as a wa y to ensure the purity of the public sphere, generally designated as male, and the protection of the female, in the same context, through a gesture of dissimulation.
The veil thus covers over her constitutional split, creating a unified or whole subject that is both dangerous by nature and incapable to defend herself or the Muslim community's identity within the social do main.
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If the veil of Maya is the most common metaphor in use to express the relation of man with everything which captivates him, that is not undoubtedly without reason, but surely sustains the sentiment that man has a certain basic illusion within all the relations woven from his desire.
The fetish being there, it is that she has clearly not lost the phallus, but by the same token, she may be made to lose it, which is to say castrated.
Upon the veil may be imaged, which is to say instituted as imaginary capture and place of desire, the relation to a beyond, which is fundamental in every institution of the symbolic relation.
personal.bgsu.edu /~dcallen/fetish.html   (3496 words)

  
 Commodity Fetishism and Reification - Mike Rooke | libcom.org
This commodity fetishism is, he claims, both an objective form and a subjective stance corresponding to it, by which he means that it is no mere illusion, but rather the actual lived experience of people in capitalist society.
The theory of commodity fetishism is the clearest expression of Marxism as ontology.
The mechanism of fetishism is indeed, in one sense, a constituting of the world: the social world, structured by relations of exchange which clearly represents the greater part of the 'nature' in which human individuals live, think and act today.
libcom.org /library/commodity-fetishism-and-reification-mike-rooke   (11406 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
And also because the ethos of rationalization that stems from, and is foundational to, that division of labor underpins those processes by which communities are fragmented into alienated private individuals–a process which imposes a cleavage between the particular and the general interest in society.
Fetishism is literally the substitution of a part for the whole–a structural protection against the estrangement that is constituent of the reified social fabric.
Daily presented with false (fetishized) images of the socio-historical totality, we are faced with the task of mediating these images into a greater network of structural relations.
www.anarchistblackcross.org /content/essays/articles/rev/praxis.html   (4171 words)

  
 Sexual fetishism
Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Alfred Binet in his Le fétichisme dans l’amour, though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient [depends on your intepretation, see Colin Wilson, The Misfits], is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a person's body.
For Freud, the fetish is a kind of creative denial, a sort of magical thinking that helps the fetishist ward off anxiety and restore a sense of well-being, all the while producing a kind of amnesia.
It urges that we embrace the new fetishism emerging from the fringes of the fetish scene and that we begin to classify fetishism in a manner that does justice to its multiplicity.
www.jahsonic.com /SexualFetish.html   (3312 words)

  
 Sexual fetishism at AllExperts
Although Freud's theory on fetishes may seem peculiar and was based on anecdotal rather than empirical evidence, he had discovered a critical aspect of human sexuality: the relationship between human orgasms and conditioning.
Sometimes, whole cultures can develop the fetish to such an extent that it is no longer perceived as a fetish, but merely as a normal sexual desire; for example late-Victorian England's ankle fetish, or the modern commonplace fetish for lingerie and women lacking body hair.
Similarly, 'fetish' is often used as a synonym for BDSM, whether or not it involves a fetish in the technical sense.
en.allexperts.com /e/s/se/sexual_fetishism.htm   (1106 words)

  
 Karl Marx, The Fetishism of Commodities
This I call the Fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour so soon as they are produced as commodities, and which is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities.
As a general rules articles of utility become commodities, only because they are products of the labour of private individuals or groups of individuals who carry on their work independently of each other.
That sense that commodities have a life of their own, that they magically appear for people to purchase or exchange, is what Marx means by the fetishism of commodities.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MODERN/FETISH.HTM   (2952 words)

  
 BBC Radio Five Live - Five Live Breakfast
Veiled women present a sinister image of Muslims and the veil is a barrier to them integrating with the mainstream community.
Veiled women in Muslim countries emphasise the fact that they are regarded as second class citizens and do not enjoy the same rights as men.
Be it veil wearing, multi-culturalism, religious freedom in Britain (Northern Ireland came to the fore this week to)celebrity divorce or the adoption of overseas orphans.
www.bbc.co.uk /blogs/fivelivebreakfast/2006/10/veiled_comments.html   (3203 words)

  
 The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University
The complexity of the issue of assuming the Islamic veil, of the circumstances under which Muslim women decide to or are persuaded to or feel pressured into and become accustomed to wearing the veil, seems to me the point of Tarlo's observations.
The ultra-signification of the veil doesn't really have much to do with the women who actually wear it, or those who actually live with and meet them, but with the dispersed and yet encompassing grip of the socio-political world.
It is the immediate socio-political imaginary that fetishizes the veil - attributes more meaning to it than it can contain in everyday or material or even sacerdotal terms - and the ideological predeterminations of that environment.
www.open.ac.uk /Arts/ferguson-centre/discussion-docs/disc-gupta-veil-30Oct06.htm   (705 words)

  
 Freedom and Fetishism Marshall Berman, 1963 - Adventures in Marxism, publ. Verso, 1999.
The function of fetishism, and of religion in general, is to relieve the believer of responsibility for his actions.
Fetishism, then, infuses the youthful exuberance of capitalism with a religious zeal — and a religious naivete; disenchantment comes with a fullness of years, and may slacken the pace, but leaves a new freedom in its wake.
Men who are animated by “fetishism,” be it religious, political or economic, will charge blindly ahead like locomotives at full speed on a single track; if they collide and destroy each other they can’t help it, there is nothing to be done.
evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /berman.htm   (4474 words)

  
 mxcfetish
The "fetishism mechanism" is a key to understanding a number of "humanist" marxist pieces on culture and social life generally (including analyses of the media).
Fetishism stands as an argument about the loss of control over, and misunderstanding of, all aspect of social life.
Since the concept appears in the mature works of Marx, some (eg Colletti) see it as evidence of the continuing interest in what the young Marx called alienation: "de-fetishisation" is still the key to Marx's method for them.
www.arasite.org /mxcf.htm   (736 words)

  
 The Reproduction of Daily Life - The Fetishism of Commodities
They are paid to obfuscate, to mask the social form of practical activity under capitalism, to veil the fact that producers reproduce themselves, their exploiters, as well as the instruments with which they're exploited.
The fetish worshipper does not know this; for him labor and land, instruments and money, entrepreneurs and bankers, are all « factors » and « agents.
The fetishism of commodities and money, the mystification of one's own daily activities, the religion of everyday life which attributes living activity to inanimate things, is not a mental caprice born in men's imaginations; it has its origin in the character of social relations under capitalism.
www.geocities.com /~johngray/reprod03.htm   (1120 words)

  
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At the same time, they draw a veil across their own origins; products appear and disappear before consumers' eyes as if by spontaneous generation, and it is an astute shopper indeed who has much idea about what most things are composed of and what kinds of people made them.
Some argue that the veiling tendency of commodity fetishism has merged with recent trends in international capitalism in a way that is particularly destructive.
A related point made by many Marxists is that the fetishism of the commodity in modern society is strategically manipulated in the practices of packaging, promotion and advertising.
instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /Courses/hist100.96/briefexplanation.html   (811 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: veil fetishism
Historically the burqa has been used by scarlet women who were not able to control their sexual appetites, so were ordered to keep covering up until only their eyes were left to cover up with a shallow veil.
The burqa is a Muslim veil in the form of a variety of headdresses worn in accordance with hijab (the principle of dressing modestly).
The burqa is said to hide a woman’s shame and keep her behind a closed veiled curtain.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=veil+fetishism   (1477 words)

  
 The Reality behind Commodity Fetishism :: Sic et Non :: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Kultur im Netz
But while the religious fetish, if my picture of the world is not totally mistaken, does not through an act of being thought about or believed in acquire powers which previously were foreign to it, the situation is different in the case of the kind of fetish Marx is concerned with.
If the fetishism of commodities would be ‘only’ a necessary condition, the answer to the above question would be negative, in case of being a sufficient condition o­ne would have to infer that there is no possibility of changing the economical basis without changing the form of commodity fetishism, which is part of the superstructure.
Marx presents a moral criticism of the state of illusion that is connected to the form of fetishism of the commodity that we have analyzed.
www.sicetnon.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=2&page_id=77   (5424 words)

  
 arthritis pain relief - Veil fetishism
Those with veil fetishs may be interested in niqabs, burkas, and harem-style veils.
One of the main reasons Muslim women wear veils is to avoid being lusted after, which makes veil fetishism particularly interesting to them.
Arab and other Muslim women are often seen in the Western world as being veiled against their will; they are only doing it for religous or social reasons (though many contend otherwise).
www.painreliefchat.com /arthritis-pain-relief/Veil_fetishism   (373 words)

  
 Michael Heinrich, "A Thing with Transcendental Qualities: Money as a Social Relationship in Capitalism"
This veil can inflict short-term damage as a result of poor administration (such as when central banks issue too much currency, thus fuelling inflation), but in the long term, the "real" underlying relationships assert themselves.
Such fetishism is not merely a delusion, or a sort of "false consciousness." In bourgeois society, money actually does possess the greatest power.
However, it only possesses such power due to a specific social relationship which underlies it: atomized commodity owners who can constitute their social relationship to one another only by means of a thing, money.
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 James' Essays: Ideology
The cause of this commodity fetishism is the nature of the exchange process.
The essence of society is one of inequality and unfreedom, as there is inequality between the propertied and propertyless classes, and that workers are not free to withhold their labour-power from the market.
Commodity fetishism and the acceptance of the status quo are largely unconscious.
interconnected.org /matt/archive/james/Ideology.html   (2027 words)

  
 Mask fetishism - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Mask fetishism is a desire to see a subject wearing a mask or taking off a mask.
The mask may be a Halloween mask, a surgical mask, ninja mask, a latex mask, or any other kind of mask.
Mask fetishism, See also, External links and Sexual fetishism.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mask_fetishism   (126 words)

  
 info: Veil_fetishism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Transvestic fetishism · Trichophilia · Troilism · Uniform fetish · Urolagnia · Veil fetishism ·...
Fetishism veil its discovery, while on the character of all civilised.
Working Class HeroVeil fetishism now seems commonplace and it seems as though the veil is now to be equated to murdering people.
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 Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter One
This Fetishism of commodities has its origin, as the foregoing analysis has already shown, in the peculiar social character of the labour that produces them.
The life-process of society, which is based on the process of material production, does not strip off its mystical veil until it is treated as production by freely associated men, and is consciously regulated by them in accordance with a settled plan.
To what extent some economists are misled by the Fetishism inherent in commodities, or by the objective appearance of the social characteristics of labour, is shown, amongst other ways, by the dull and tedious quarrel over the part played by Nature in the formation of exchange value.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm   (18901 words)

  
 A Dialectical Humanism
Marx's trek from "alienation" in 1844 to "fetishism" in 1867 is a perspectival shift, not an epistemological one.
Yet Marx insists that workers keep abreast of the bigger perspective: His section on the "fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof," in Volume One of Capital, suggests that bits of the puzzle are missed when reality is viewed merely perceptually, at the level of appearances.
The fetishism, Marx and Berman concur, requires puncturing: "Only a 'world-historical class,' one whose interests and ideals are fused," Berman says, "is capable of decisively enlarging the scope of freedom for all.
www.thenation.com /doc/19991122/merrifield/2   (888 words)

  
 Kathryn Cramer: VEIL
Koplar Communications International, home of VEIL technology, seems to be a real company with a real address and real execs and all that (unlike certain companies I've lately looked into).
What appears on the screen of your computer is a video signal, so control of that signal should be understood as control of the reality coming in through the computer, tailored to a specific user or set of users in proximity to the device.
But with all the surrounding secrecy of the VEIL technology, there is also no particular reason to believe that it would really function at the most basic level advertised, securing "content" for "content providers" and defending it against "piracy." So again, we need to take a close look at what those patents actually describe.
www.kathryncramer.com /kathryn_cramer/veil/index.html   (3935 words)

  
 APTER: UNMASKING THE MASQUERADE: FETISISM AND FEMININTY FROM THE GONCOURT BROTHERS TO JOAN RIVIERE
And yet, the masquerade and fetishism in their shared dependency on the lexicon of phallic surrogation prove to be curiously compatible at specific theoretical junctures.
In this context, the expression rhetorical fetishism refers to the taste for epithet, mannered syntax, and tropes of hyperbole and accumulation commonly used by the Goncourts to render the codes of feminilite.
One might conclude here that fetishism is failed masquerade, for when the man dons the mask of womanliness it remains an unconvincing representation of femininity, whereas the opposite is true when women adopt a cover-up for masculine attributes—their travesty appears to be entirely believable.
www.ncf.edu /hassold/WomenArtists/apter_unmasking_the_masquerade.htm   (10051 words)

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