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Fashioning the feminine : representation and women's fashion from the fin de siecle to the present / Cheryl Buckley and Hilary Fawcett.
Penn Museum Library HQ1593 .B835 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Cheryl, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Femininity--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Femininity.
- Fashion--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Fashion.
- Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women.
- Women in popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women in popular culture.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Fashion--Social aspects.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2002.
- Summary:
- Representations of fashionable femininity have multiplied through the 20th century. In fashion store advertising, magazines, photography, and museum collections, complex versions of feminine identity have been and are being formed. This book examines the relationship between women's fashion, female representation, and femininity in Britain from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-153) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1860645062
- OCLC:
- 49050392
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