On Fashion

Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion's discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessantly communicating messages about its wearer. But who speaks this language, to whom is it addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and transformed? On Fashion explores the ways our material, political, psychological, sexual, even intellectual lives are woven into fashion's fabric.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Design Dictates
Sight Lines
Body Politics
Selected Bibliography
Contributors' Notes
Index

About the author

SHARI BENSTOCK is a professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 and Textualizing the Feminine: On the Limits of Genre.

SUZANNE FERRISS is an assistant professor in the liberal arts department at Nova University.

Product details

• Authors: Shari Benstock, Shari Benstock Benstock, Shari Ferriss Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss
• Assisted by: Shari Benstock (Editor), Suzanne Ferriss (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1994
• EAN: 9780813520339
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-2033-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Beauty/cosmetics; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture