Fashion and cultural studies

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Fashion and cultural studies

Susan B. Kaiser

Berg, 2012

  • : pbk

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"Reprinted by Bloomsbury Academic 2013, 2014"--T.p. verso of 2014 printing

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index

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Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine identity and difference, agency and structure, and production and consumption. Fashion, meanwhile, benefits from the interpretative lens of cultural studies; its key concepts, contextual flexibility, and attention to bridging 'high' and 'popular' culture, contemporary and historical perspectives, and diverse identity issues and methodologies. Organised thematically, the book uses a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore ethnicity, class, gender and nation through fashion, and explains the ways in which these notions interact and overlap. Drawing on intersectionality theory in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Fashion and Culture: Cultural Studies, Fashion Studies Intersectional, Transnational Fashion Subjects Fashioning the National Subject Ethnicity and 'Race' Social Class Gender Sexuality Fashioning Cultural Theory: Flexibility and its Limits Bibliography Index

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