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Fashion and politics / edited by Djurdja Bartlett.

Contributor(s): Bartlett, Djurdja, 1949- [editor.]Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019Description: 239 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 021687427ISBN: 9780300238860Subject(s): Fashion -- Political aspects | Clothing and dress -- Political aspects | Fashion -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 391

Contents:

Preface -- I. Political fashion, fashionable politics. Can fashion be defended? / Djurdja Bartlett -- II. Reform or revolution. Fashion: an oriental tyranny in the heart of the West? / Barbara Vinken -- Wang Guangmei's crimes of fashion: the politics of dress in China's Cultural Revolution / Jin Li Lim -- Style activism: the everyday activist wardrobe of the Black Panther Party and rock against racism movement / Carol Tulloch -- III. Bodies and borders. Bombshell: fashion in the age of terrorism / Rhonda Garelick -- Insurgent trend: the popularity of the keffiyeh / Jane Tynan -- Photo essay: The uniform, the subject, the power / Gabi Scardi -- IV. Resistance or recuperation. Dressing the opposition: sartorial resistance on Europe's political left / Anthony Sullivan -- Photo essay: Three pairs of khaki trousers, or how to decolonise a museum / Erica de Greef -- 'Thrown away like a piece of cloth': fashion production and the European refugee crisis / Serkan Delice.

Summary: A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the present day. Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread fascination, this pioneering book presents new research on the intersection of fashion and politics through incisive essays by the field's leading voices, including both renowned and emerging fashion scholars. The texts unpack fashion between the mid-19th century and today as expressions of nationalism, terrorism, surveillance, and individualism, as well as a symbol of capitalism. The first section explores the political potential of fashion despite its immutable status as a commodity. The second section offers a historical account of the political nature of dress, such as the fashion of dissent within Mao's Cultural Revolution and the Black Panther movement. The ways bodies are defined by dress-the entanglement of oppression and expression-is the theme of the third section. A fourth and final section explores contemporary issues in the practice and theory of dress, from the processes of decolonizing museum collections to the recent sartorial styles of Europe's political Left. The book's incisive and beautifully illustrated essays provide a timely investigation of an underdeveloped topic through a variety of historical and current formats, including public and personal archives, fashion magazines, political newspapers, museum displays, art, and social media.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	MAIN LIBRARY Book	PRINT	391 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	12/02/2024	112177

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the present day

Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread fascination, this pioneering book presents new research on the intersection of fashion and politics through incisive essays by the field's leading voices, including both renowned and emerging fashion scholars. The texts unpack fashion between the mid-19th century and today as expressions of nationalism, terrorism, surveillance, and individualism, as well as a symbol of capitalism.

The first section explores the political potential of fashion despite its immutable status as a commodity. The second section offers a historical account of the political nature of dress, such as the fashion of dissent within Mao's Cultural Revolution and the Black Panther movement. The ways bodies are defined by dress--the entanglement of oppression and expression--is the theme of the third section. A fourth and final section explores contemporary issues in the practice and theory of dress, from the processes of decolonizing museum collections to the recent sartorial styles of Europe's political Left. The book's incisive and beautifully illustrated essays provide a timely investigation of an underdeveloped topic through a variety of historical and current formats, including public and personal archives, fashion magazines, political newspapers, museum displays, art, and social media.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the present day. Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread fascination, this pioneering book presents new research on the intersection of fashion and politics through incisive essays by the field's leading voices, including both renowned and emerging fashion scholars. The texts unpack fashion between the mid-19th century and today as expressions of nationalism, terrorism, surveillance, and individualism, as well as a symbol of capitalism. The first section explores the political potential of fashion despite its immutable status as a commodity. The second section offers a historical account of the political nature of dress, such as the fashion of dissent within Mao's Cultural Revolution and the Black Panther movement. The ways bodies are defined by dress-the entanglement of oppression and expression-is the theme of the third section. A fourth and final section explores contemporary issues in the practice and theory of dress, from the processes of decolonizing museum collections to the recent sartorial styles of Europe's political Left. The book's incisive and beautifully illustrated essays provide a timely investigation of an underdeveloped topic through a variety of historical and current formats, including public and personal archives, fashion magazines, political newspapers, museum displays, art, and social media.

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CHOICE Review

Over the past half century global societies have been strongly influenced by political events, and questions have arisen as to whether fashion affects politics or merely reflects it. Incorporating multiple approaches and disciplines (philosophy, history, economics, anthropology, art, and museology), this volume addresses wide-ranging questions about Western capitalism versus Marxism, racism versus elitism, gender versus authoritarianism, the individual body and the body politic (literally and figuratively), uniforms and rituals, terrorism versus traditionalism, power and vulnerability, immigration and exploitation. The book's cover, which depicts serious pink-pussy-hatted Anglo models walking the catwalk dressed in a variety of woven sports outfits, exemplifies the complexity of the topic. Bartlett (histories and cultures of fashion, London College of Fashion, UK) has been a pioneer in using fashion visuals as a vehicle for studying transnational phenomena. Her past works--for example, FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism (CH, Jul'11, 48-6456)--compared aesthetics in capitalistic versus socialistic societies. In the present volume Bartlett brings together multiple scholarly viewpoints to show how powerful fashion really is. Perhaps these global discussions, including those about the significance of fashion, will suggest innovative solutions to social challenges both old and new, challenges that may emanate from imperialistic injustice. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals --Beverly B. Chico, Regis University

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