ISBN:
9781138788985
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (223 p)
Series Statement:
Popular Culture and World Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Behnke, Andreas The International Politics of Fashion : Being Fab in a Dangerous World
DDC:
391
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Half Title -- Series Information -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Fashion and the performativity of the political -- Fashion as an ambiguous semiotic system -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- References -- 1 This is not a mannequin: Enfashioning bodies of resistance -- Introduction -- Enfashioning technologies of the self and performativity -- The body: absorptive and resistant -- This is not a mannequin -- The mannequin: a contrapuntal/juxtapositional figure
Abstract:
Enfashioning the body -- Dressing mannequins of resistance -- Conclusion -- Enfashioning bodies, perfomative resistances -- Notes -- References -- 2 The art of (un)dressing dangerously: The veil and/as fashion -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing bodies and Islamic fashion -- Four scenarios of (un)dressing dangerously -- 'Burqa bans' and 'What not to wear' -- Veil fashionistas and their malcontents -- Artists' interventions -- Naked protests: undressing dangerously -- Bodies in world politics after 9/11 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
3 Orientalism refashioned: 'Eastern moon' in 'Western waters' reflecting back on the East China Sea -- Introduction -- Said's Orientalism -- Negative Orientalism -- Grey flannel America versus Mao jacket China -- Positive Orientalism -- Negative/positive entwinements -- Buddhist kōans -- Lagerfeld in China -- The Diaoyutai-Senkaku Islands dispute -- Kōanizing Sino-Japanese relations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Fashion statements: Wearing trousers in Sudan -- Introduction -- Wearing trousers and public order -- 'This is not about trousers' -- Identity, dress and society -- Conclusion
Abstract:
Notes -- References -- 5 (Un)dressing the sovereign: Fashion as symbolic form -- Introduction -- Sovereignty as symbolic form -- Fashioning sovereignty -- Portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud -- Gendering the sartorial form of sovereignty -- The gendered nature of sovereign splendour -- Sartorial code and sartorial opprobrium -- Fashion diplomacy and imperial sovereignty -- Conclusion -- Unmasking the sovereign -- Notes -- References -- 6 The evolution of Somali women's fashion during changing security contexts -- Introduction -- Precolonial Somali society -- Colonialism and independence
Abstract:
The civil war and first international intervention -- Political Islam and the 'War on Terror' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Margaret Thatcher, dress and the politics of fashion -- Introduction -- Dress, women and politics -- The performativity of dress -- The 'Iron Lady' and dress -- Dress, Hollywood and glamour -- Margaret Thatcher in the public gaze -- Dress and performances of power -- Embodying domestic and international power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Fashion studies takes on politics -- Introduction -- Situating fashion studies -- Uncovering fashion -- Bodies
Abstract:
Gender trouble
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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