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Fashion: New Feminist Essays


Fashion: New Feminist Essays

Hardback by Parkins, Ilya; Dever, Maryanne (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Fashion: New Feminist Essays

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ISBN:
9780367436889
Publication Date:
12 Feb 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
150 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Fashion: New Feminist Essays

Description

Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape, Fashion: New Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that reveal the relationships between fashion with gender, sexuality, race, and age. Fashion is a rich terrain for feminist scholars in the twenty-first century. Explicit engagements with feminist and queer politics, critical interventions by industry outsiders across digital platforms, diversifying images of stylish bodies, and ongoing discussions of the ethics and sustainability of fashion production: all of these point to an urgent need to reappraise the relationship of fashion to feminism and other justice-seeking movements. The essays in this collection take up fashion as a feminist critical tool that uniquely holds together the lived and represented body with larger cultural structures. Contributors unearth surprising new lines of connection between gender, sexuality, race, age, and religion in their relationship to capitalism, both historically and in the present. Bringing together established and emerging scholars, and perspectives from gender studies, history, sociology, philosophy, and literary studies, Fashion: New Feminist Essays traces the far-reaching impact of this most feminized of forms, underscoring the significance of fashion studies for understanding the politics of culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Studies journal.

Contents

Introduction: Fashion and the Feminist Politics of the Present: An Introduction 1.Sisters in a Fashion: Martha Ansara and Elaine Welteroth 2. 'I Want to Wear It': Fashioning Black Feminism in Mahogany (1975) 3. Fashion, Faith, Sexuality: An Interview with Reina Lewis 4. Digital Fashion Engagement through Affect, Personal Investments and Remix 5. Cindy Sherman in a New Millennium: Fashion, Feminism, Art and Ageing 6. Fashionable 'Formation': Reclaiming the Sartorial Politics of Josephine Baker 7. Just Use What You Have: Ethical Fashion Discourse and the Feminisation of Responsibility 8. Performative Rhetorics in Invisibility: Phoebe Philo's Undone Authorship

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