Fashion, agency, and empowerment : performing agency, following script / edited by Annette Lynch, Katalin Medvedev.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lynch, Annette (Annette Ferne), editor.

Medvedev, Katalin, editor.

Series:

Dress and fashion research.

Dress and fashion research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects.

Fashion.

Objectification (Social psychology).

Social change.

Social norms.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion.

Physical Description:

xvi, 232p. ; $b ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018.

Summary:

"Fashion has always been strongly linked with the politics of gender and equality. In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body, fashion, sex, and power, with an emphasis on the role of dress in both reinforcing and challenging social norms. Covering a range of geographic and social contexts, the book explores the role of fashion in empowering both individuals and groups to create transformation and change. Taking us from the performance of black dandyism through stylized hats, to the use of challenging dance forms and male-inspired dress by female South African dancers to express independence and equality, to ways in which recent Bond Girls have challenged traditional gender binaries, the book provides a crucial entry point into discussions of fashion as an empowerment strategy. Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment encourages the reader to critically examine the cultural and social impact of sexual objectification, as well as to consider personal and shared narratives of self-objectification and repression. With chapters ranging from the iconic self-fashioning of Princess Diana to a discussion of sex, power, and cultural constructions of masculinity, Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment provides crucial insights into global fashion, political structures, and social life."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Fashion, Agency and Empowerment

Annette Lynch and Katalin Medvedev

Fashion as Challenge and Empowerment

Chapter 1

The Beauty Divide: Black Millennial Women Seek Agency with Makeup Art Cosmetics (MAC)

Jaleesa Reed and Katalin Medvedev

Chapter 2

Kangol Kool: Stylized Hats and the Performance of Black Dandyism

Derrick Williams

Chapter 3

Challenging the Gender Binary in Bond Films: Bond Girls, Female Villains, and James

Laureen Gibson

Chapter 4

Menswear in the Millennium: Bending the Gender Binary

Parker Bennett

Dialogues between Dress and Structures of Power

Chapter 5

High Flying Fashions: Ghana Airways' Female Flight Attendants as Exemplars of the Nation

Christopher Richards

Chapter 6

First Ladies of the Raj: Status and Empowerment in British India

Donald Clay Johnson

Chapter 7

The Lady was a Mshoza: Female Agency and Empowerment in South African Pantsula Dance and Culture

Daniela Goeller

Chapter 8

Penetrating Knits: Feminists Knit 'Cunty First' and 'The Pussyhat'

Rebecca E. Schuiling and Theresa Winge

Chapter 9

The Choli and the Empowerment of Indian Women

Vandana Bhandari

Narratives of Objectification and Self-Objectification

Chapter 10

The Prowess of a Virgin Goddess and a Seductress: Analyzing the Ideals of Female Sexuality of Princess Diana and Kate Middleton

Caroline McCauley

Chapter 11

Dress and Sex Work - Attracting Customers through Virtual Environments

Tasoulla Hadiyanni and Kim K. Johnson

Chapter 12

Stripping of Power: Dress and Undress of Afro-Brazilian Women in the Scientific Work of Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz

Kelly Mohs Gage

Chapter 13

Turning Self to Object: Costume, Identity, and Gender Roles in Alice Austen's Photographic Self-Portraits

Keren Ben-Horin.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350058286

1350058289

9781350058293

1350058297

9781350058279

1350058270

OCLC:

1102725535