In our third episode of Style Out There, host Asha Leo delivered an a typical New York fashion story — one that doesn’t involve Fashion Week at Lincoln Center or model-off-duty looks spotted in SoHo.

In Islam, men and women share responsibility in upholding modesty and controlling their desires in society. Whether someone dresses or behaves modestly or not, the obligation to guard one’s own ...

Caryn Andrews had been in search of a dissertation topic when a member of her synagogue happened to pose a question: “Do you think religious Jews would be less likely to go for a mammogram?” Intrigued ...

The Grandmothers' personal grandchildren are, of course, perfect in every respect. And even if they weren't, the Grandmothers know well the first rule of grandmothering: offer no advice or criticism ...

For my first post here on The Sisterhood I’m picking up on Debra Nusssbaum Cohen’s invitation to talk about modesty. While Cohen focuses her discussion on modest dress, she got me to thinking about a ...

As a global society, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the role fashion plays — it has become a powerful medium of self-expression, identity formation, and ...

It was related on the authority of Abu Mas'ood Al-Badri that: "The Messenger of Allah said: "One of the admonitions of the previous prophets which has been conveyed to people is that if you have no ...

Fashion is a tricky one for feminists. There are two poles to navigate, each with deep roots in thousands of years of patriarchy, and few of us make it through uncompromised. On one side we feel the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Any time Mormon leaders sense a decline of moral standards in the world, they roll out sermons on modesty. In the 1960s and early ’70s, they preached against miniskirts and hot ...

The most momentous, controversial, even frightening power of the federal judiciary--the one in greatest tension with democracy and federalism--is the power to invalidate federal and state statutes ...