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Dressing constitutionally : hierarchy, sexuality, and democracy from our hairstyles to our shoes / Ruthann Robson, City University of New York School of Law.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robson, Ruthann, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--Law and legislation--United States.
- Clothing and dress.
- Beauty, Personal--Government policy--United States.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- Government policy.
- Clothing and dress--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book examines how the intertwining of clothes and the United States Constitution raises fundamental questions of hierarchy, sexuality and democracy. Constitutional considerations both constrain and confirm daily choices. In turn, appearances provide multilayered perspectives on the Constitution and its interpretations. Garments often raise First Amendment issues of expression or religion, but they also prompt questions of equality on the basis of gender, race and sexuality. At work, in court, in schools, in prisons and on the streets, clothes and grooming provoke constitutional controversies. Additionally, the production, trade and consumption of apparel implicates constitutional concerns including colonial sumptuary laws, slavery, wage and hour laws, and current notions of free trade. The regulation of what we wear - or do not - is ubiquitous. From a noted constitutional scholar and commentator, this book examines the rights to expression and equality, as well as the restraints on government power, as they both limit and allow control of our most personal choices of attire and grooming.
- Contents:
- Dressing historically
- Dressing barely
- Dressing sexily
- Dressing professionally
- Dressing disruptively
- Dressing religiously
- Dressing economically.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139028059
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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