Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources--books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews and exhibition catalogues. Each section is specially introduced and concludes with guides to further reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 A Very Different Proposition: Introducing the Memorial Museum
• 2 The Surviving Object: Presence and Absence in Memorial Museums
• 3 Photographic Memory: Commemorating Calamitous Events through Images
• 4 Rocks and Hard Places: Location and Spatiality in Memorial Museums
• 5 A Diplomatic Assignment: The Political Fortunes of Memorial Museums
• 6 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility
• 7 Looming Disaster: Memorial Museums and the Shaping of Historic Consciousness
• 8 Conclusion: Fighting the Forgetful Future
• 1 A Very Different Proposition: Introducing the Memorial Museum
• 2 The Surviving Object: Presence and Absence in Memorial Museums
• 3 Photographic Memory: Commemorating Calamitous Events through Images
• 4 Rocks and Hard Places: Location and Spatiality in Memorial Museums
• 5 A Diplomatic Assignment: The Political Fortunes of Memorial Museums
• 6 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility
• 7 Looming Disaster: Memorial Museums and the Shaping of Historic Consciousness
• 8 Conclusion: Fighting the Forgetful Future