Fashion: New Feminist Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367436889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 150 str.

Ilya Parkins; Maryanne Dever

Opis

Bringing together 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ilya Parkins is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada. She specializes in feminist theory, mass culture, fashion, and femininities. Maryanne Dever is co-editor of Australian Feminist Studies and has published widely on feminist literary and cultural studies. Her previous Routledge edited collections include Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research (2018). She works in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.