Crossing Gender Boundaries - Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend

This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments - how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender - the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion.

A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access: Crossing Gender Boundaries. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public Licence and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.

About the author

Andrew Reilly is professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where he teaches courses related to behavioural aspects of fashion and dress. His research and books examine the intersections of gender and sexuality and post-postmodernism in dress. He is founder and editor of the journal Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, also published by Intellect.
Ben Barry is dean and associate professor of equity and inclusion in the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design. Using qualitative and creative methods, his scholarship primarily explores the relationship between masculinities, fat and disabled bodies, and fashion.

Contact: Parsons School of Design, The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Barry, Andrew Reilly
• Assisted by: Ben Barry (Editor), Ben (Parsons School of Design Barry (Editor), Ben (Ryerson University Barry (Editor), Ben (The New School Barry (Editor), Andrew Reilly (Editor), Andrew (University of Hawai'i Reilly (Editor)
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 239 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 468 g
• Illustrations: 23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Mode und Bekleidung