Once fashion was seen as marginal. Now it entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work as a major driver of developed economies. This second edition gives a summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality.The book offers a synthesis between the literature on fashion and dress and the sociology of the body. The book shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requires an understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culture since it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed in almost all social situations and encounters.
Creator
Entwistle, Joanne
Mail and female
Mail and female
Fashion talks
Creator
Tarrant, Shira > (ed.)
Jolles, Marjorie > (ed.)
Fashion talks
This publication give a look at the politics of everyday style. The editors bring together essays that cover topics such as lifestyle Lolitas, Hollywood baby bumps, haute couture hijab, gender fluidity, steampunk, and stripper shoes, and engage readers with analyses of real-world issues. This collection explores whether style can shift the limiting boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Creator
Tarrant, Shira > (ed.)
Jolles, Marjorie > (ed.)
Being gorgeous
Creator
Willson, Jacki
Being gorgeous
This book explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play, a pleasurable misbehavior that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture.
Creator
Willson, Jacki
Sex and unisex
Creator
Paoletti, Jo B.
Sex and unisex
The 1960s and 1970s produced provocative fashion trends that reflected the rising wave of gender politics and the sexual revolution. In an era when gender stereotypes were questioned and dismantled, and when the feminist and gay rights movements were gaining momentum and a voice, the fashion industry responded in kind. Designers from Paris to Hollywood imagined a future of equality and androgyny. The unisex movement affected all ages, with adult fashions trickling down to school-aged children and clothing for infants. Between 1965 and 1975, girls and women began wearing pants to school: boys enjoyed a brief 'peacock revolution', sporting bold colors and patterns: and legal battles were fought over hair style and length.
Creator
Paoletti, Jo B.
The fashioned body
Creator
Entwistle, Joanne
The fashioned body
Overview of fashion and dress from a historical and sociological perspective. The book summarises theories of Douglas, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Goffman and Bourdieu surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society, and describes the role of fashion in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality. First published: 2000
Creator
Entwistle, Joanne
Bound to please
Creator
Summers, Leigh
Bound to please
Author reveals how the corsets were a crucial element in constructing middle-class women as psychologically submissive subjects. Underlying this discussion are issues surrounding the development and expression of juvenile and adult sexuality.