Fashion talks : undressing the power of style
Shira Tarrant (Editor), Marjorie Jolles (Editor)
"Fashion Talks is a vibrant look at the politics of everyday style. Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles bring together essays that cover topics such as lifestyle Lolitas, Hollywood baby bumps, haute couture hijab, gender fluidity, steampunk, and stripper shoes, and engage readers with accessible and thoughtful analyses of real-world issues. This collection explores whether style can shift the limiting boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexuality, while avoiding the traps with which it attempts to rein us in. Fashion Talks will appeal to cultural critics, industry insiders, mainstream readers, and academic experts who are curious about the role fashion plays in the struggles over identity, power, and the status quo"--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2012
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2012
xiii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781438443195, 9781438443201, 1438443196, 143844320X
754105565