Fashion and cultural studies / Susan B. Kaiser.
By: Kaiser, Susan B [author.]
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019Description: xii, 227 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0037966553ISBN: 9781350109605 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Fashion | Clothing and dress -- Social aspects | Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects | Beauty and Fashion | Cultural studies: customs & traditions | Fashion & textiles | Cultural studies | Popular culture | Cultural studies: fashion & society | Cosmetics, hair & beautyDDC classification: 391 LOC classification: GT525 | .K35 2019| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine identity and difference, agency and structure, and production and consumption. Fashion, meanwhile, benefits from the interpretative lens of cultural studies; its key concepts, contextual flexibility, and attention to bridging 'high' and 'popular' culture, contemporary and historical perspectives, and diverse identity issues and methodologies. Organised thematically, the book uses a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore ethnicity, class, gender and nation through fashion, and explains the ways in which these notions interact and overlap. Drawing on intersectionality theory in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars.
Originally published: London: Berg, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Fashion and Culture: Cultural Studies, Fashion Studies -- Intersectional, Transnational Fashion Subjects -- Fashioning the National Subject -- Ethnicity and 'Race' -- Social Class -- Gender -- Sexuality -- Fashioning Cultural Theory: Flexibility and its Limits -- Bibliography -- Index
This work draws on a wide range of case study material, including hip-hop, business wear and Harajuku youth style. The book also offers a way of understanding why people dress the way they do and what meanings we ascribe to particular fashion styles. Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine identity and difference, agency and structure, and production and consumption. Fashion, meanwhile, benefits from the interpretative lens of cultural studies; its key concepts, contextual flexibility, and attention to bridging 'high' and 'popular' culture, contemporary and historical perspectives, and diverse identity issues and methodologies. Organised thematically, the book uses a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore ethnicity, class, gender and nation through fashion, and explains the ways in which these notions interact and overlap. Drawing on intersectionality theory in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Acknowledgments (p. xi)
- 1 Fashion and Culture: Cultural Studies, Fashion Studies (p. 1)
- Articulation: Style-Fashion-Dress (p. 6)
- The Fields of Fashion Studies and Cultural Studies (p. 7)
- Conceptualizing Culture and Fashion (p. 12)
- Circuit of Style-Fashion-Dress Model (p. 13)
- 2 Intersectional, Transnational Fashion Subjects (p. 28)
- Assumption 1 Inevitably, People Appear (p. 30)
- Assumption 2 Fashion Is Transnational-Not Merely Western or "Euromodern" (p. 32)
- Assumption 3 Subject Formation through Style-Fashion-Dress Is a Personal Process of Navigating Intersectionalities (p. 35)
- Assumption 4 Entanglements: From Identity Not to Identity (K)nots (p. 38)
- Assumption 5 Structures of Feeling-Expressed through Subject Formation and the Fashion Process Alike-Articulate between Everyday Life and Culture through the Circuit of Style-Fashion-Dress (p. 40)
- Assumption 6 The Process of Negotiating Ambiguity Is Not a Level Playing Field, and It Is a Material Process-Especially in a Transnational Context (p. 45)
- 3 Fashioning the National Subject (p. 52)
- Nation ≠ Essence (p. 52)
- National and Transnational Subject Formation (p. 54)
- Representing Nationalism (p. 56)
- Globalization (p. 57)
- Rethinking National Histories, Mapping the World (p. 60)
- European Expansion: Textile Trade and National Symbolism (p. 62)
- Nation-State and Style-Fashion-Dress: Working the Hyphen (p. 64)
- Intersectionalities and Entanglements (p. 72)
- 4 Ethnicities and "Racial" Rearticulations (p. 75)
- Roots of Racial and Ethnic Concepts (p. 76)
- Racial Rearticulations (p. 79)
- Ethnicity: Belonging-in-Difference (p. 87)
- Religious Rearticulations (p. 90)
- 5 Class Matters (p. 98)
- Conceptualizing Class (p. 101)
- Metaphors of Class Structure (p. 103)
- Historical Hegemonies: Renegotiating and Regulating Class Boundaries (p. 106)
- Status Claims and Status Demurrals (p. 115)
- Fashionable Hegemony (p. 118)
- 6 Gendering Fashion, Fashioning Gender: Beyond Binaries (p. 121)
- Soft Assemblages (p. 124)
- Marking, Unmarking, and Remarking Gender (p. 125)
- Sex, Gender, and Style-Fashion-Dress: Feminist Deconstructions (p. 127)
- Theorizing the Body and Style-Fashion-Dress (p. 130)
- Transgender Studies through Bodies and Style-Fashion-Dress (p. 131)
- Menswear Out of the Academic Closet (p. 135)
- Multiple Masculinities (p. 137)
- 7 Sexuality and Style-Fashion-Dress (p. 148)
- Binary "Beginnings" and Reversals (p. 151)
- Homophobic Discourse (p. 153)
- Protracted Coming Out of Heterosexuality (p. 157)
- 1960s and 1970s: Social Movements and Sexual Fashions (p. 158)
- 1980s and Beyond: Queering Fashion (p. 160)
- Sexualizing and Gendering Ambiguity (p. 165)
- Gazing Subjects: Positionalities (p. 167)
- Sexuality through Intersectionalities (p. 170)
- 8 Bodies in Motion through Time and Space: Age/Generation and Place (p. 172)
- Time and Space (p. 172)
- Age/Generation and Place (p. 178)
- Open Intersectionalities: Further Subject Positions (p. 191)
- Closing/Opening Thoughts (p. 193)
- References (p. 195)
- Index (p. 213)
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