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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814144103321

Autore

Gonzalez Ana Marta <1969->

Titolo

Identities through fashion : a multidisciplinary approach / / edited by Ana Marta Gonzalez and Laura Bovone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg Publishers, 2012

ISBN

0-85785-119-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BovoneLaura

Disciplina

746.9/2

Soggetti

Fashion - Psychological aspects

Fashion design

Identity (Psychology)

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

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; PART I: FASHION AND IDENTITY; 2 The Modern Western Fashion Pattern, Its Functions and Relationship to Identity; 3 Fashion, Image, Identity; 4 Identity and Intersubjectivity; PART II: FASHION AS COMMUNICATION; 5 Fashion, Identity and Social Actors; 6 The Proliferation of Fashion and the Decline of Its Code of Meanings; 7 How Successful Is Communication via Clothing? Thoughts and Evidence on an Unexamined Paradigm; 8 Adolescence: Identity, Fashion and Narcissism; PART III: FASHION, IMAGE AND HEALTH

9 Fashion, Lifestyle and Psychiatry10 The Impact of the Term 'Fashion' on Medical and Psychiatric Literature; 11 Strong Fashion and Weak Identity: A Necessary Association?; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's complex relationship with post-industrial societies. Herein the authors address, from the standpoint of their respective disciplines, what crucial functions fashion fulfils in the modern world, especially as it relates to the construction



and deconstruction of the self. T