Fashion and its social agendas : class, gender, and identity in clothing / Diana Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crane, Diana, 1933-

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--Social aspects.

Costume.

Fashion--Social aspects.

Fashion.

Social classes.

Gender identity.

Group identity.

Costume and sexuality.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Summary:

Acknowledgments1. Fashion, Identity, and Social Change2. Working-Class Clothing and the Experience of Social Class in the Nineteenth Century3. Fashion, Democratization, and Social Control4. Women's Clothing Behavior as Nonverbal Resistance: Symbolic Boundaries, Alternative Dress, and Public Space5. Fashion Worlds and Global Markets: From "Class" to "Consumer" Fashion6. Men's Clothing and the Construction of Masculine Identities: Class, Lifestyle, and Popular Culture7. Fashion Images and the Struggle for Women's Identity8. Fashion and Clothing Choices in Two CenturiesAppendix 1: List of Monographs of Nineteenth-Century French Working-Class Families Published by Frederic Le Play and His AssociatesAppendix 2: Interview Schedules; Questionnaire for Focus GroupsReferencesIndex

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

0226117987

OCLC:

42953022