Fashion Theory: Volume 5, Issue 2 The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

by Steele, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9781859734131
• ISBN10: 1859734138
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Agnes Rocamora: High Fashion and Pop Fashion: The Symbolic Production of Fashion in Le Monde and The GuardianTina Mai Chen: Dressing for the Party: Clothing, Citizenship, and Gender-formation in Mao's ChinaMary Lynn Stewart with Nancy Janovicek: Slimming the Female Body? Re-evaluating Dress, Corsets, and Physical Culture in France, 1890s-1930sPaoloa Zamperini: Clothes that Matter: Fashioning Modernity in Late Qing NovelsThomas Humery: Exhibition Review: Behind the Outfit: The 'Wardrobes' Exhibition at the Musée de la Mode et du TextileJohn Harvey: Book Review: Venus and Furs: The Cultural Politics of Fur by Julia V. EmberleyAdam Briggs: Book Review: The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory by Joanne EnwistleJudith Clark: Book Review: Defining Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity ed. Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth WilsonAnnouncement: Vivienne Westwood: The collection of Romilly McAlpine, Liverpool Museum, 25 May-30 September 2001Announcement: Nineteenth Century StudiesCall for Papers: Uniforms for Civilians: On the History of Uniforms as Symbolic Communication

Author Biography

Valerie Steele is Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor	121	(2)
Valerie Steele
High Fashion and Pop Fashion: The Symbolic Production of Fashion in Le Monde and The Guardian	123	(20)
Agnes Rocamora
Dressing for the Party: Clothing, Citizenship, and Gender-formation in Mao's China	143	(30)
Tina Mai Chen
Slimming the Female Body?: Re-evaluating Dress, Corsets, and Physical Culture in France, 1890s-1930s	173	(22)
Mary Lynn Stewart
Nancy Janovicek
Clothes That Matter: Fashioning Modernity in Late Qing Novels	195	(20)
Paola Zamperini
Exhibition Review Behind the Outfit: The ``Wardrobes'' Exhibition at the Musee de la Mode et du Textile	215	(6)
Thomas Humery
Book Review Venus and Furs: The Cultural Politics of Fur by Julia V. Emberley	221	(4)
John Harvey
Book Review The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory by Joanne Entwistle	225	(4)
Adam Briggs
Book Review Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity ed. Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth Wilson	229	(4)
Judith Clark
Announcement Vivienne Westwood: The collection of Romilly McAlpine, Liverpool Museum, 25 May-30 September 2001	233	(4)
Announcement Nineteenth Century Studies	237	(2)
Call for Papers Uniforms for Civilians: On the History of Uniforms as Symbolic Communication	239