Research Catalog

Title

Fashion, agency, and empowerment : performing agency, following script / edited by Annette Lynch, Katalin Medvedev.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lynch, Annette (Annette Ferne)
• Medvedev, Katalin

Description

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Fashion has always been strongly linked with the politics of gender and equality. In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body, fashion, sex, and power, with and emphasis on the role of dress in both reinforcing and challenging social norms. Covering a range of geographic and social contexts, the book explores the role of fashion in empowering both individuals and groups to create transformation and change. Taking us from the performance of black dandyism through stylized hats, to the use of challenging dance forms and male-inspired dress by female South African dancers to express independence and equality, to ways in which recent Bond Girls have challenged traditional gender binaries, the book is a crucial entry pointo into discussions of fashion as an empowerment strategy. Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment provides valuable insights into global fashion, political structures, and social life"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Dress and fashion research

Uniform Title

Dress and fashion research.

Subjects

• Fashion > Social aspects
• Clothing and dress > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The beauty divide: black millennial women seek agency with Makeup Art Cosmetics (MAC) / Jaleesa Reed and Katalin Medvedev -- Kangol Kool: stylized hats and the performance of black dandyism / Derrick L. Williams -- Challenging the gender binary in Bond films: Bond girls, female villains, and James / Laureen Gibson -- Menswear in the millennium: bending the gender binary / Parker Bennett -- High flying fashions: Ghana Airways' female flight attendants as exemplars of the nation / Christopher Richards -- First ladies of the Raj: status and empowerment in British India / Donald Clay Johnson -- A lady is a mshoza: femal agency and empowerment in South African pantsula dance and culture / Daniela Goeller -- Penetrating knits: feminists knit "Cunty First" and "The Pussyhat" / Rebecca E. Shuiling and Therèsa M. Winge -- The choli and the empowerment of Indian women / Vandana Bhandari -- The prowess of a virgin goddess and a seductress: analyzing the ideals of female sexuality of Princess Diana and Kate Middleton / Caroline McCauley -- Dress and place in sex work: attracting customers through virtual environments / Tasoulla Hadjiyanni and Kim K. P. Johnson -- Stripping of power: dress and undress of Afro-Brazilian women in the scientific work of Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz / Kelly Mohs Gage -- Turning self to object: costume, identity, and gender roles in Alice Austen's photographic self-portraits / Keren Ben-Horin.

Call Number

JQE 19-126

ISBN

• 1350058262
• 9781350058262

OCLC

1079377480

Title

Fashion, agency, and empowerment : performing agency, following script / edited by Annette Lynch, Katalin Medvedev.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Dress and fashion research

Dress and fashion research.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lynch, Annette (Annette Ferne), editor.

Medvedev, Katalin, editor.

Research Call Number

JQE 19-126