Dressed to impress : looking the part / edited by William Keenan.
How humans dress defines their identity. These writings show how show how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provide accessible accounts of the link between dress and a considerable variety of lifestyles.
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Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Berg,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction: Sartor Resartus Restored: Dress Studies in Carlylean Perspective
- 2. A Comparative Exploration of Dress and the Presentation of Self as Implicit Religion
- 3. An 'Informalizing Spurt' in Clothing Regimes: Court Ballet in the Civilizing Process
- 4. Land of Hip and Glory: Fashioning the 'Classic' National Body
- 5. Multiple Meanings of the Hijab in Contemporary France
- 6. Gestus Manifests Habitus: Dress and the Mormon
- 7. Vampires and Goths: Fandom, Gender and Cult Dress
- 8. The Fall and Rise of Erotic Lingerie
- 9. Dress Freedom: The Personal and the Political
- Name Index
- Subject Index.