Fashioning the body politic : dress, gender, citizenship / edited by Wendy Parkins.

Contributor(s): Parkins, Wendy [editor]
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2002Description: xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1859735827 (cloth); 1859735878 (paper); 9781859735879Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- Political aspects | Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects | Human body -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 391 LOC classification: GT523.9 | F37 2002Online resources: Publisher description
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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."
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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."

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