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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461982603321

Titolo

Fashion talks [[electronic resource] ] : undressing the power of style / / edited by Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4384-4321-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TarrantShira <1963->

JollesMarjorie

Disciplina

391.2

Soggetti

Women's clothing - Social aspects

Clothing and dress - Social aspects

Fashion - Social aspects

Feminism - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Fashion Talks""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Feminism Confronts Fashion""; ""I: Dressing the Body: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality ""; ""Chapter 1: Fashioning a Feminist Style, Or, How I Learned to Dress from Reading Feminist Theory""; ""Chapter 2: Dressing Left: Conforming, Transforming, and Shifting Masculine Style ""; ""Chapter 3: The Baby Bump Is the New Birkin ""; ""Chapter 4: Fashion as Adaptation: The Case of American Idol""; ""Chapter 5: My Mannequin, Myself: Embodiment in Fashion�s Mirror""

""Chapter 12: Steampunk: Stylish Subversion and Colonial Chic""""Chapter 13: DIY Fashion and Going Bust: Wearing Feminist Politics in the Twenty-First Century""; ""Chapter 14: Stylish Contradiction: Mix-and-Match as the Fashion of Feminist Ambivalence""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""