“School dress codes and fashion magazines are in precisely the same business: policing female clothing, as part of a larger project of policing women’s bodies”

…there is a difference between religious authority figures who dictate how you must dress in order avoid punishment and please God, and fashionistas who dictate how you should dress in order to look great and please stockholders. But make no mistake. School dress codes and fashion magazines are in precisely the same business: policing female clothing, as part of a larger project of policing women’s bodies.

Yoel Finkelman, “Little Women of Valor”, Lehrhaus (23 November 2016) [http://www.thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/little-women-of-valor]