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About this book
A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies.
Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this comprehensive collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion. Each chapter guides you through the work of a major thinker and considers their historical context, the role of fashion within their theory, how their theoretical frameworks apply to contemporary fashion studies, and the strengths and limitations of their approach.
Featuring new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, this new edition prepares readers to question and diversify the field of fashion. A revised introduction resituates theories in relation to each other and reflects on changing approaches to fashion studies, while revisions to existing chapters equip readers with the most up-to-date critical perspectives and developments in fashion and fashion theory.
Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this comprehensive collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion. Each chapter guides you through the work of a major thinker and considers their historical context, the role of fashion within their theory, how their theoretical frameworks apply to contemporary fashion studies, and the strengths and limitations of their approach.
Featuring new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, this new edition prepares readers to question and diversify the field of fashion. A revised introduction resituates theories in relation to each other and reflects on changing approaches to fashion studies, while revisions to existing chapters equip readers with the most up-to-date critical perspectives and developments in fashion and fashion theory.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Thinking Through Fashion
- Chapter 2: Karl Marx: Fashion and capitalism
- Chapter 3: Sigmund Freud: More than a fetish: Fashion and psychoanalysis
- Chapter 4: Georg Simmel: The philosophical ‘Monet’
- Chapter 5: W. E. B. Du Bois: Fashion through the veil
- Chapter 6: Walter Benjamin: Fashion, modernity and the city street
- Chapter 7: Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the grotesque body
- Chapter 8: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The corporeal experience of fashion
- Chapter 9: Roland Barthes: Semiology and the rhetorical codes of fashion
- Chapter 10: Erving Goffman: Cultural observation in social science
- Chapter 11: Frantz Fanon: Fashion and decolonization on a planetary scale
- Chapter 12: Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-organs in the folds of fashion
- Chapter 13: Michel Foucault: Fashioning power and resistance
- Chapter 14: Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern fashion as the end of meaning
- Chapter 15: Pierre Bourdieu: The field of fashion
- Chapter 16: Jacques Derrida: Fashion under erasure
- Chapter 17: Edward Said: Orientalism, fashion and cultures of imperialism
- Chapter 18: Bruno Latour: Actor–network theory and fashion
- Chapter 19: bell hooks: The joys of cultural differences and racial justice in fashion
- Chapter 20: Judith Butler: Fashion and performativity
- About the authors
- Index