TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parkins,Wendy
TI  - Fashioning the body politic: dress, gender, citizenship 
SN  - 1859735827 (cloth)
AV  - GT523.9 F37 2002
U1  - 391 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Berg
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Human body
N1  - 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
N2  - 	
"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."
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0612/2001007580-d.html
ER  -