Fashioning the body politic :  dress, gender, citizenship / 
edited by Wendy Parkins. 
 - xi, 260 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-251) and index. 
<br/><br/>	Introduction: (ad)dressing citizens / Wendy Parkins --<br/>The formation and currency of a vestimentary stereotype: the sans-culotte in Revolutionary France / Richard Wrigley --<br/>Subject in citizens' the politics of clothing in imperial Russia / Christine Ruane --<br/>Tailoring the nation: fashion writing in nineteenth-century Argentina / Regina A. Root --<br/>'The epidemic of purple, white and green': fashion and the suffragette movement in Britain, 1908-14 / Wendy Parkins --<br/>Scouts, guides, and fashioning the of empire, 1919-39 / Tammy M. Proctor --<br/>Peeking under the black shirt: Italian Fascism's disembodied bodies / Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi --<br/>Camisas nuevas: style and uniformity in the flange Espaņola 1933-43 / Mary Vincent --<br/>Blankets: the visible politics of indigenous clothing in Australia / Margaret Maynard --<br/>Children's day: the fashionable performance of modern citizenship in China / Stephaine Hemelryk Donald --<br/>Afterthought: redressing the balance in historiography / Roger Griffin. 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>"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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1859735827 (cloth) 1859735878 (paper) 9781859735879 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001007580 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Clothing and dress--Political aspects.<br/>Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.<br/>Human body--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GT523.9  / F37 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>391