Buttoned Up
Subtitle: Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801454189
Subjects: Sex role; Men; United states, social life and customs; Clothing and dress, social aspects; White collar workers; Men's clothing
Description: Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures--New York, San Fransisco, and Cincinnati--Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now. --Back cover.