The paper looks at the construction of Muslim postfemininity where the codes of modesty gets adopted, modified and debunked and the muslim femininity is shaped by the new and modern forms of femininities. The paper aims to assess how the new forms of Muslim femininities are created, if the appropriation of veil continues to be the signifier of modest codes, and whether the modest principles are compromised or not. The paper relocates the muslim women participating in sports as new modern women who negotiate with the Islamic codes of modesty (as they are not supposed to participate in public) by adopting veil during physical exercise to understand the multiple forms of muslim female subjectivity. Through secondary data research the paper seeks to provide a holistic understanding of how muslim sportswomen negotiate with the criticism of their own cultural practices for engaging in a public space while situating their bodies within the white ideals of femininity. Therefore, how they grapple to manage their antagonistic identity of a morally pious woman and a physically active sportswoman. Through the usage of ‘bandana’, ‘hijood’, ‘burkini’ and others, muslim women re-create newer forms of sporting femininity. The paper seeks to understand if the new forms of sports attire is liberating as it provides them the space to engage with physical activities or functions as a form of consumer feminism where it uses feminist rhetoric of liberation along with the pro-veiling feminism in order to sell its attire to the Muslim female elite mass. Within the postfeminist narrative it is argued that equality has been achieved in sports celebrating the dominant white female athletes in popular culture, however it neglects the larger structure for low participation of marginalized women in sports while placing the responsibility on the girls to be resourceful and self-motivated.
