**1. Introduction**

Religious Muslim women's identities have become the subject of a wide range of research from struggling for existence in the public arena to the sharing of housework. Veiled dressing styles are directly associated with the beliefs of religious Muslim women. Veils have been at the core of many of these studies with attempts to understand female religiosity from this perspective. The ways veiled women dress in their homes and display feminine behaviors are not detailed sufficiently. This study focused on the dress and behavior in the private indoor lives of women who consider themselves to be religious Muslims.

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Women's bodies play a central role in the construction of a Muslim religious identity since they have a place in social norms, practices, and values. Determining what is *natural* for bodies according to social and cultural codes resulted in the evaluation of women's bodies under social pressures [1–3, 5]. Veiling is one of the most important indicators of female religiosity. A woman who is veiled to carry out the orders of the religion is thought to bring her religious beliefs into action. This is based on the Muslim identity's desire to establish a deep connection between thought and action [6, 7]. The root cause of the legitimization of veiling is consensus on women' being living creatures who leads to *fitna*, 1 which is identified with bodies and bodily desire. Thus, veiling was considered as a way of dressing that would minimize or eliminate the sexual desire of men. *Fitna* is the most basic foundation of the Islamic social order, which depends on gender duality since it is the justification for supervising women in Islam [8].<sup>2</sup> In this sense, dressing style has a moral function, the function of saving the honor of women. According to Islam, dress is a means of modesty and decency that should not reveal women's bodies and their shapes. On the contrary, it should hide them [24].<sup>3</sup>

Although the appearance of Muslim religious women is identified in this way, the limitations of women's veiled dressing and the behavior that evokes femininity in their private indoor lives are not known. Here, behavior that evokes femininity means how a woman reveals her sexual identity to the person she feels romantic about or sexually attracted to, in this research context, her husband.
