On Fashion
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813520339 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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With style, fashion and fantasy as the themes, these essays reveal how fashion claims ownership of our bodies. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by SH. On Fashion presents a collection of essays that look inside the constructed world of fashion and dress, and the constraints in which women become captive. What function do the clothes we adorn ourselves with really perform? Are we dressing for success, for the spectator, for ourselves or merely to cover our bodies? The ill-fitting viewpoint that one's attire displays one's aptitude, character or standing seems to prevail. The fashion industry grasps this passion, modifies it to fit within the world of design and profits from it immensely. Do clothes ma
But who speaks this language, to whom is it addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and transformed? On Fashion explores the ways our material, political, psychological, sexual, even intellectual lives are woven into fashion's fabric. Rabine, Andrew Ross, Sonia Rykiel, Carol Shloss, Kaja Silverman, Maureen Turim, and Iris Marion Young.. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion's discourses. This stimulating collection of essays explores fashion's symbolic and figurative functions in photography, cinema, and video; in consumerism, postmodernism, and feminism; in political and material culture; and in self-definition and subjectivity. They demonstrate the pervasive reach of fashion and its expressions. Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessantly communicating messages about its wearer. This collection contains over sixty photographs and illustrations and includes essays by Barbara Brodman, Mary Ann Caws, Linda Benn DeLibero, Hlne Cixous, Diana Fuss, Cheryl Herr, Karla Jay, Deborah Jenson, Douglas Kellner, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, Leslie W
SHARI BENSTOCK is a professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 and Textualizing the Feminine: On the Limits of Genre.SUZANNE FERRISS is an assistant professor in the liberal arts department at Nova University.
"Fashion Studies, Where Art Thou?" according to Krazy Kat. Could have been more analytical.