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Identities through fashion : a multidisciplinary approach /

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2012.Description: xvi, 206 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780857850584 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GT 525 IDE
Contents:
Preface / Joanne Finkelstein. Introduction / Diana Crane.
The modern Western fashion pattern, its functions and relationship to identity / Colin Campbell. Fashion, image, identity / Ana Marta González. Identity and intersubjectivity / Ann Margaret Brach.
Fashion, identity and social actors / Laura Bovone. The proliferation of fashion and the decline of its code of meanings / Alejandro Nestor García Martínez.
Summary: With the triumph of a fashion milieu in which once tightly fixed rules have been deconstructed and almost anything goes, fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines. This book brings together academics from philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry, to examine fashion's complex relationship with post-industrial societies. The authors seek to address, from the standpoint of their respective disciplines, what crucial functions fashion is fulfilling in the modern world, especially as it relates to the construction and deconstruction of the self.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Joanne Finkelstein. Introduction / Diana Crane.

Part I: Fashion and identity The modern Western fashion pattern, its functions and relationship to identity / Colin Campbell. Fashion, image, identity / Ana Marta González. Identity and intersubjectivity / Ann Margaret Brach.

Part II: Fashion as communication Fashion, identity and social actors / Laura Bovone. The proliferation of fashion and the decline of its code of meanings / Alejandro Nestor García Martínez.

With the triumph of a fashion milieu in which once tightly fixed rules have been deconstructed and almost anything goes, fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines. This book brings together academics from philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry, to examine fashion's complex relationship with post-industrial societies. The authors seek to address, from the standpoint of their respective disciplines, what crucial functions fashion is fulfilling in the modern world, especially as it relates to the construction and deconstruction of the self.

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