| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Creating Gender -- 1. Bifurcated Garments and Divided Skirts: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Sartorial Feminine in Late Victorian Culture -- 2. 'Hard and Straight': The Creation of Nineteenth-Century Masculinity through Corsetry -- 3. Mirror Epiphany: Transpersons' Use of Dress to Create and Sustain Their Affirmed Gender Identities -- 4. Withering Heights: High Heels and Hegemonic Masculinity -- Part 2: Disrupting Gender -- 5. Cute Men in Contemporary Japan |
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6. The Politicization of Fashion in Virtual Queer Spaces: A Case Study of Saint Harridan, One of the Pioneering Queer Fashion Brands in the Twenty-First Century -- 7. 'She Was Not a Girly Girl': Athletic Apparel, Female Masculinity and the Endorsement of Difference -- 8. Gender More: An Intersectional Perspective on Men's Transgression of the Gender Dress Binary -- 9. In-vest-ed Meaning: Gender Ambiguity in Costume Collections -- Part 3: Transcending Gender -- 10. The Politics of the Neutral: Rad Hourani's Unisex Vision |
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11. Shirting Identities: Negotiating Gender Identity through the Dress Shirt -- 12. Why Don't I Wear Skirts? Politics, Economy, Society and History -- 13. Critical Mascara: On Fabulousness, Creativity and the End of Gender -- 14. Clothes (Un)make the (Wo)man -- Ungendering Fashion (2015)? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments - how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender - the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2020) |
| Subject |
Fashion.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion.
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Gay people -- Clothing
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Transgender people -- Clothing
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Business & Economics -- Industries -- Fashion & Textile Industry.
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Social Science -- Gender Studies.
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Fashion
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reilly, Andrew Hinchcliffe, editor.
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Barry, Ben, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781789381153 |
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1789381150 |
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9781789381160 |
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1789381169 |
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