03674nam 2200613 450 991046076510332120191125090015.01-5017-0095-21-5017-0096-010.7591/9781501700965(CKB)3710000000513358(EBL)4189261(SSID)ssj0001581157(PQKBManifestationID)16259743(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001581157(PQKBWorkID)14861994(PQKB)11036328(MiAaPQ)EBC4189261(MiAaPQ)EBC5965025(OCoLC)1080551800(MdBmJHUP)muse58502(DE-B1597)496604(OCoLC)1042030716(DE-B1597)9781501700965(Au-PeEL)EBL5965025(EXLCZ)99371000000051335820191125d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrButtoned up clothing, conformity, and white-collar masculinity /Erynn Masi de CasanovaIthaca, New York ;London :ILR Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-5017-0049-9 0-8014-5418-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Playing by the Rules -- 2. Just Like Dad? -- 3. Putting On the Uniform -- 4. The Metrosexual Is Dead, Long Live the Metrosexual! -- 5. What about Women? -- 6. The F Word -- 7. Being/Becoming the Boss -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Research Methods and Demographic Profile of Interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Photo galleryWho is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures-New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati-Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now.Despite the expansion of men's fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers' accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men's anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance.Clothing and dressSocial aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.Clothing and dressSocial aspects391.00973Casanova Erynn Masi de1977-903095MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460765103321Buttoned up2477945UNINA