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Overview"What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be ""in fashion"" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fred DavisPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 1.40cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 2.20cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780226138091ISBN 10: 0226138097 Pages: 233 Publication Date: 01 September 1994 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Do Clothes Speak? What Makes Them Fashion? 2: Identity Ambivalence, Fashion's Fuel 3: Ambivalences of Gender: Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Boys 4: Ambivalences of Status: Flaunts and Feints 5: Ambivalences of Sexuality: The Dialectic of the Erotic and the Chaste 6: Fashion as Cycle, Fashion as Process 7: Stages of the Fashion Process 8: Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation 9: Conclusion, and Some Afterthoughts References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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