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""A fascinating account of the powerful roles fur has played in various cultures and of the historical and political forces at work in the play of its meanings.""-Jonathan Culler, Cornell University""In this well-written treatise, Emberley ...views fur through widely disparate lenses...Emberley is able to make us understand all the viewpoints she presents...A valuable book on a little-explored subject.""-Library Journal""This is a strong and intelligent work on a controversial topic. Emberley's book is much more intellectually sophisticated than anything else I've seen on this subject.""-Valerie Steele, Editor, Fashion Theory""Julia Emberley's book is a complex, wide-ranging, and fascinating feminist critique of the history and meaning of fur and fashion. Particularly unique is her integration of indigenous voices into the debates.""-Lucy Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on ArtFur has been sparking controversies ever since sumptuary laws marked it as a luxury item and as a sign of medieval class privilege. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary sources, Julia V. Emberley explains how a material good has become both a symbol of wealth and sexuality, and a symptom of class, gender, and imperial antagonisms.

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Author:   Julia V. Emberley
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801484049

ISBN 10:   0801484049
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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This is a strong and intelligent work on a controversial topic. Emberley's book is much more intellectually sophisticated than anything else I've seen on this subject. -Valerie Steele, Chief Curator, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

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Julia V. Emberley is Associate Professor in the Women's Studies Undergraduate and Gender Studies Graduate Programs at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is the author of Thresholds of Difference: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory.

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