Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Häftad bok. The University of Chicago Press. 1994. 226 sidor.

Nära nyskick. ENGELSK TEXT. Format 21,5 x 14 cm Vikt 295 g.
Häftad bok med mjuka pärmar, illustrerad med sv/v foton och teckningar. What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes--and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments 1. Do clothes speak? What makes them fashion? 2. Identity ambivalence, Fashion's fuel 3. Ambivalences of gender: Boys will be boys, girls will be boys 4. Ambivalences of status: Flaunts and feints 5. Ambivalences of sexuality: The dialectic of the erotica and the chaste 6. Fashion as cycle, fashion as process 7. Stages of the fashion process 8. Antifashion: The vicissitudes of negation 9. Conclusion, and some afterthoughts. References. Index.
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