Fashioning the body politic
Subtitle: dress, gender, citizenship
By: edited by Wendy Parkins.
Contributors: Parkins, Wendy.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Costume -- Political aspects; Costume -- Symbolic aspects; Fashion -- Political aspects; Body, Human -- Political aspects
Description: With an afterword by Roger Griffin. Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the Fre nch Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and protest. Fashioning the Body Politic challenges the perception of helpless fashion victims, subject to manipulation by consumerism and the fas hion industry, and shows how, in a range of historical and national contexts, certain styl.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: (ad)dressing citizens / Wendy Parkins; title: The formation and currency of a vestimentary stereotype: the sans-culotte in Revolutionary France / Richard Wrigley; title: Subject in citizens' the politics of clothing in imperial Russia / Christine Ruane; title: Tailoring the nation: fashion writing in nineteenth-century Argentina / Regina A. Root; title: 'The epidemic of purple, white and green': fashion and the suffragette movement in Britain, 1908-14 / Wendy Parkins; title: Scouts, guides, and fashioning the of empire, 1919-39 / Tammy M. Proctor; title: Peeking under the black shirt: Italian Fascism's disembodied bodies / Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi; title: Camisas nuevas: style and uniformity in the flange Española 1933-43 / Mary Vincent; title: Blankets: the visible politics of indigenous clothing in Australia / Margaret Maynard; title: Children's day: the fashionable performance of modern citizenship in China / Stephaine Hemelryk Donald; title: Afterthought: redressing the balance in historiography / Roger Griffin.