Fashion Talks Undressing the Power of Style

Name: Fashion Talks Undressing the Power of Style
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ISBN: 9781438443201

ISBN-10: 143844320X

ISBN-13: 9781438443201

Edition: 2012

Authors: Shira Tarrant, Marjorie Jolles

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Description:

Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 273
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Feminism Confronts Fashion




Dressing the Body: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality



Fashioning a Feminist Style, Or, How I Learned to Dress from Reading Feminist Theory




Dressing Left: Conforming, Transforming, and Shifting Masculine Style




The Baby Bump Is the New Birkin




Fashion as Adaptation: The Case of American Idol




My Mannequin, Myself: Embodiment in Fashion's Mirror




Life's Too Short to Wear Comfortable Shoes: Femme-ininity and Sex Work




Japanese Lolita: Challenging Sexualized Style and the Little-Girl Look




Fashion Choices: The Ethics of Consumption, Production, and Style



Glam Abaya: Contemporary Emirati Couture




Ado(red), Abhor(red), Disappea(red): Fashioning Race, Poverty, and Morality under Product (Red)™




The Lady Is a Vamp: Cruella de Vil and the Cultural Politics of Fur




Something Borrowed, Something Blue: What's an Indie Bride to Do?




Steampunk: Stylish Subversion and Colonial Chic




DIY Fashion and Going Bust: Wearing Feminist Politics in the Twenty-First Century




Stylish Contradiction: Mix-and-Match as the Fashion of Feminist Ambivalence



About the Authors


Index