The fashioned body : fashion, dress and modern social theory / Joanne Entwistle.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2015.Edition: Second editionDescription: xxix, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780745649382 (paperback)
- 0745649386 (paperback)
- 391 ENT
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about 'cultural' and 'creative' work as a major driver of developed economies. With a new preface and new material on the evolving fashion industry, this second edition gives a clear summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality.
The book offers a much needed synthesis between the literature on fashion and dress, and the sociology of the body, offering an updated critique of the issues raised in the first edition. Entwistle shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requires an understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culture since it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed in almost all social situations and encounters. She argues that while fashion refers to a specific system of dress originating in the west, all cultures 'dress' the body in the same way, making it a crucial feature of social order. Drawing on the work of theorists, the book offers insights into the connections that need to be made between the body, fashion and dress.
The Fashioned Body will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture.
Index.
Once fashion was seen as marginal. Now it entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about \'cultural\' and \'creative\' work as a major driver of developed economies. This second edition gives a summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality. The book offers a synthesis between the literature on fashion and dress and the sociology of the body. The book shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requires an understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culture since it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed in almost all social situations and encounters.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. vi)
- Preface to the Second Edition (p. viii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Addressing the Body (p. 6)
- 2 Theorizing Fashion and Dress (p. 40)
- 3 Fashion, Dress and Social Change (p. 78)
- 4 Fashion and Identity (p. 112)
- 5 Fashion and Gender (p. 140)
- 6 Fashion, Adornment and Sexuality (p. 181)
- 7 The Fashion Industry (p. 208)
- Conclusion (p. 245)
- References (p. 248)
- Index (p. 268)