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Thinking through fashion : a guide to key theorists / edited by Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Dress cultures.
- Dress cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fashion design.
- Fashion--Social aspects.
- Fashion.
- Fashion--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (450 pages)
- Edition:
- Second and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, a new preface and updated introduction, and essential revisions to equip readers with the most up-to-date developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this crucial collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Thinking Through Fashion
- Chapter 2: Karl Marx: Fashion and capitalism
- Chapter 3: Sigmund Freud: More than a fetish: Fashion and psychoanalysis
- Chapter 4: Georg Simmel: The philosophical 'Monet'
- Chapter 5: W. E. B. Du Bois: Fashion through the veil
- Chapter 6: Walter Benjamin: Fashion, modernity and the city street
- Chapter 7: Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the grotesque body
- Chapter 8: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The corporeal experience of fashion
- Chapter 9: Roland Barthes: Semiology and the rhetorical codes of fashion
- Chapter 10: Erving Goffman: Cultural observation in social science
- Chapter 11: Frantz Fanon: Fashion and decolonization on a planetary scale
- Chapter 12: Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-organs in the folds of fashion
- Chapter 13: Michel Foucault: Fashioning power and resistance
- Chapter 14: Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern fashion as the end of meaning
- Chapter 15: Pierre Bourdieu: The field of fashion
- Chapter 16: Jacques Derrida: Fashion under erasure
- Chapter 17: Edward Said: Orientalism, fashion and cultures of imperialism
- Chapter 18: Bruno Latour: Actor-network theory and fashion
- Chapter 19: bell hooks: The joys of cultural differences and racial justice in fashion
- Chapter 20: Judith Butler: Fashion and performativity
- About the authors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-37655-8
- 1-350-37653-1
- 1-350-37654-X
- OCLC:
- 1500763861
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