Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1850438943 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is co-editor with Elizabeth Wilson of Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader and is a reviewer for The Journal of Fashion Theory and Feminist Review.. Juliet Ash is Tutor in Dress/Textiles Design History at the Royal College of Art
She is co-editor with Elizabeth Wilson of Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader and is a reviewer for The Journal of Fashion Theory and Feminist Review.. About the AuthorJuliet Ash is Tutor in Dress/Textiles Design History at the Royal College of Art
Juliet Ash takes the reader on a journey from the production of prison clothing to the bodies of its wearers. She reveals the hoods, the masks, and pink boxer shorts, near nakedness, even twenty first-century ""civvies"" to be not just other types of uniform but political embodiments of the surveillance of everyday life.. She uncovers a history characterized by waves of reform, sandwiched between regimes that use clothing as punishment and discovers how inmates use their dress to surmount, subvert or survive these punishment cultures. From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners’ lives. Vividly illustrated and based on original research, including throughout the voices of the incarcerated, this book is a pioneering history and investigation of prison dress, which demystifies t
taking things too far Jeffery Mingo The author is trying to make the point that not just cramped quarters, bad food, boredom, separation from the opposite sex, etc. are the punishment of prisoners, but also prison clothing is part of the castigation. The book traces this from the 1800s to modern times. Either the authorities give inmates clothes that are uncomfortable or shaming or they let them wear what they came in with which often falls apart or allows them to freeze.I appreciate the author for her progressive vision. However, I think she takes things too far at times. She laments, "Why can't prisoners wear what