TY - BOOK AU - Spillane,Sarah Kate TI - Using semiotics to challenge the preferred ideologies of gender within society in an attempt to question the importance of fashion in constructing gender, through analysing androgyny as a deconstructive form U1 - Thesis Fashion 14/16 PY - 2016/// CY - Limerick : PB - Limerick Institute of Technology/Limerick School of Art and Design KW - Gender KW - Fashion KW - Fashion theses KW - Extended essays KW - Theses KW - LSAD KW - Clare Street N1 - Thesis submitted for B.A. (Hons) in Fashion Design 2016; Includes bibliographical references; The aim of this essay is to question whether fashion is the sole means of expressing gender. Using a semiotic and synchronic approach, I identify and challenge the preferred ideologies of gender within society, in the attempt to examine why gender must be separated according to sex, and in turn why fashion must also be separated according to this biological binary opposition, causing each gender to have its own unique dress code. [Abstract] ER -