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Andrew Reilly, Ben Barry - Crossing Gender Boundaries, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Crossing Gender Boundaries

Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend

Av Andrew Reilly, Ben Barry

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Beskrivning
This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion. Crossing Gender Boundaries first examines how clothing has been, and continues to be, used to create and maintain the binary gender division that has come to permeate Western and westernized cultures. Next, it explores how dress can be used to contest and subvert binary gender expectations, before a final section that considers the meaning of gender and how dress can transcend it, focusing on unisex and genderless clothing.The essays consider how fashion can both constrict and free gender expression, explore the ways dress and gender are products of one other and illuminate the construction of gender through social norms. Readers will find that through analysis of the relationship between gender and fashion, they gain a better understanding of the world around them.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-02-24
  • Mått: 170 x 244 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 386 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 225
  • Förlag: Intellect
  • ISBN: 9781789381535
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Andrew Reilly is professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where he teaches courses related to behavioural aspects of fashion and dress. His research and books examine the intersections of gender and sexuality and post-postmodernism in dress. He is founder and editor of the journal Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, also published by Intellect.Ben Barry is associate professor of equity, diversity, and inclusion at the School of Fashion and Director of the Centre for Fashion Diversity & Social Change at Ryseron University. His research explores gender inequalities and transformations through dress, with a focus on the men and masculinities at the intersections of queer, disabled and fat embodiments.

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'At the heart of this book is a desire to expose how gender binaries have defined self-presentation for centuries and the impact these practices have had in the development of the fashion industry in western-centric areas. The book also accounts for how we have challenged (or crossed) boundaries and how we must continue challenging, disrupting and transcending the identity oppression created by the strict social structures imposed on many of us in terms of gender identity. This is not the first time the field of fashion studies questions these binaries, but this volume is an excellent resource adding new material and new perspectives corresponding to the global and changing zeitgeist of gender identities. [...] While a more global perspective would be welcomed, this new collection is essential reading in fashion and gender – understood as the social and political understanding and construction of bodies as based on cultural norms and not on biological features. [...] The road to destabilize and transcend the long-established gender binary system is a long one. The essays in this reader relate some successful stories and outline possibilities for a future that may allow us to fully cross gender boundaries.'

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