| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: feminism confronts fashion / Marjorie Jolles and Shira Tarrant -- Fashioning a feminist style, or, How I learned to dress from reading feminist theory / Astrid Henry -- Dressing left: conforming, transforming, and shifting masculine style / Shira Tarrant -- The baby bump is the new Birkin / Renée Ann Cramer -- Fashion as adaptation: the case of American Idol / Leslie Heywood and Justin R. Garcia -- My mannequin, myself: embodiment in fashion's mirror / Denis Witzig -- Life's too short to wear comfortable shoes: femme-ininity and sex work / Jayne Swift -- Japanese Lolita: challenging sexualized style and the little-girl look / Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal -- Glam Abaya: contemporary Emirati couture / Jan C. Kreidler -- Ado(red), abhor(red), disappea(red): fashioning race, poverty, and morality under Product (Red) / Evangeline M. Heiliger -- The lady is a vamp: Cruella de Vil and the cultural politics of fur / Catherine Spooner -- Something borrowed, something blue: what's an indie bride to do? / Elline Lipkin -- Steampunk: stylish subversion and colonial chic / Diana M. Pho and Jaymee Goh -- DIY fashion and going Bust: wearing feminist politics in the twenty-first century / Jo Reger -- Stylish contradiction: mix-and-match as the fashion of feminist ambivalence / Marjorie Jolles |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women's clothing -- Social aspects
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
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Fashion -- Social aspects
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Feminism -- Social aspects
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects
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Fashion -- Social aspects
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Feminism -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tarrant, Shira, 1963-
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Jolles, Marjorie.
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| LC no. |
2011036641 |
| ISBN |
9781438443218 |
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1438443218 |
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