Fashion Talks : Undressing the Power of Style

by Tarrant, Shira; Jolles, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9781438443201
• ISBN10: 143844320X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Author Biography

Shira Tarrant is Associate Professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Men and Feminism and When Sex Became Gender and the editor of Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power. Marjorie Jolles is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Roosevelt University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Feminism Confronts Fashion	p. 1
Dressing the Body: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
Fashioning a Feminist Style, Or, How I Learned to Dress from Reading Feminist Theory	p. 13
Dressing Left: Conforming, Transforming, and Shifting Masculine Style	p. 33
The Baby Bump Is the New Birkin	p. 53
Fashion as Adaptation: The Case of American Idol	p. 67
My Mannequin, Myself: Embodiment in Fashion's Mirror	p. 83
Life's Too Short to Wear Comfortable Shoes: Femme-ininity and Sex Work	p. 99
Japanese Lolita: Challenging Sexualized Style and the Little-Girl Look	p. 117
Fashion Choices: The Ethics of Consumption, Production, and Style
Glam Abaya: Contemporary Emirati Couture	p. 135
Ado(red), Abhor(red), Disappea(red): Fashioning Race, Poverty, and Morality under Product (Red)™	p. 149
The Lady Is a Vamp: Cruella de Vil and the Cultural Politics of Fur	p. 165
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: What's an Indie Bride to Do?	p. 179
Steampunk: Stylish Subversion and Colonial Chic	p. 191
DIY Fashion and Going Bust: Wearing Feminist Politics in the Twenty-First Century	p. 209
Stylish Contradiction: Mix-and-Match as the Fashion of Feminist Ambivalence	p. 227
About the Authors	p. 245
Index	p. 251
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