LEADER 03674nam 2200613 450 001 9910460765103321 005 20191125090015.0 010 $a1-5017-0095-2 010 $a1-5017-0096-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501700965 035 $a(CKB)3710000000513358 035 $a(EBL)4189261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001581157 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16259743 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001581157 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14861994 035 $a(PQKB)11036328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4189261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965025 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551800 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58502 035 $a(DE-B1597)496604 035 $a(OCoLC)1042030716 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501700965 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5965025 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000513358 100 $a20191125d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aButtoned up $eclothing, conformity, and white-collar masculinity /$fErynn Masi de Casanova 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cILR Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5017-0049-9 311 $a0-8014-5418-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Playing by the Rules -- $t2. Just Like Dad? -- $t3. Putting On the Uniform -- $t4. The Metrosexual Is Dead, Long Live the Metrosexual! -- $t5. What about Women? -- $t6. The F Word -- $t7. Being/Becoming the Boss -- $tConclusion -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAppendix. Research Methods and Demographic Profile of Interviewees -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex -- $tPhoto gallery 330 $aWho 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. 606 $aClothing and dress$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aClothing and dress$xSocial aspects 676 $a391.00973 700 $aCasanova$b Erynn Masi de$f1977-$0903095 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460765103321 996 $aButtoned up$92477945 997 $aUNINA