Body Style

Therèsa M. Winge is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Theory in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University. In recent years, Winge's research has focused on the socio-cultural aspects and non-verbal communication of subcultural dress.

Body Style is a welcome project, at once accessible to students and the general public and relevant to professional anthropologists... We welcome more attention to the cultural variations within Western societies and to the complex and controversial interplay between Western societies and (at least imagined versions of) non-Western ones... The book gives us pause to think about the extremes to which people will go, and perhaps must go in the post-modern era, to make themselves.

• Table of ContentsList of ImagesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter One: Introduction to Subcultural Body StyleChapter Two: Subcultural Body Style HistoryChapter Three: Subcultural Body Style and IdentityChapter Four: Subcultural Body StyleChapter Five: Future of Subcultural Body StyleNotesFurther ReadingsReferencesIndex