Fashioning the body politic : dress, gender, citizenship /
edited by Wendy Parkins.
- xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-251) and index.
Introduction: (ad)dressing citizens / Wendy Parkins --
The formation and currency of a vestimentary stereotype: the sans-culotte in Revolutionary France / Richard Wrigley --
Subject in citizens' the politics of clothing in imperial Russia / Christine Ruane --
Tailoring the nation: fashion writing in nineteenth-century Argentina / Regina A. Root --
'The epidemic of purple, white and green': fashion and the suffragette movement in Britain, 1908-14 / Wendy Parkins --
Scouts, guides, and fashioning the of empire, 1919-39 / Tammy M. Proctor --
Peeking under the black shirt: Italian Fascism's disembodied bodies / Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi --
Camisas nuevas: style and uniformity in the flange Española 1933-43 / Mary Vincent --
Blankets: the visible politics of indigenous clothing in Australia / Margaret Maynard --
Children's day: the fashionable performance of modern citizenship in China / Stephaine Hemelryk Donald --
Afterthought: redressing the balance in historiography / Roger Griffin.
"Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste. This book reveals that, from the French Revolution to Post-Revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in the political participation and protest."
1859735827 (cloth) 1859735878 (paper) 9781859735879
2001007580
Clothing and dress--Political aspects.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Human body--Political aspects.
GT523.9 / F37 2002
391
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-251) and index.
Introduction: (ad)dressing citizens / Wendy Parkins --
The formation and currency of a vestimentary stereotype: the sans-culotte in Revolutionary France / Richard Wrigley --
Subject in citizens' the politics of clothing in imperial Russia / Christine Ruane --
Tailoring the nation: fashion writing in nineteenth-century Argentina / Regina A. Root --
'The epidemic of purple, white and green': fashion and the suffragette movement in Britain, 1908-14 / Wendy Parkins --
Scouts, guides, and fashioning the of empire, 1919-39 / Tammy M. Proctor --
Peeking under the black shirt: Italian Fascism's disembodied bodies / Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi --
Camisas nuevas: style and uniformity in the flange Española 1933-43 / Mary Vincent --
Blankets: the visible politics of indigenous clothing in Australia / Margaret Maynard --
Children's day: the fashionable performance of modern citizenship in China / Stephaine Hemelryk Donald --
Afterthought: redressing the balance in historiography / Roger Griffin.
"Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste. This book reveals that, from the French Revolution to Post-Revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in the political participation and protest."
1859735827 (cloth) 1859735878 (paper) 9781859735879
2001007580
Clothing and dress--Political aspects.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Human body--Political aspects.
GT523.9 / F37 2002
391