The Politics and Spectacle of Fashion and Femininity

Stewart reviews Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood by Sarah Berry, Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siecle to the Present by Cheryl Buckley and Hilary Fawcett, The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky,...

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Published in:Journal of Women's History 2005-04, Vol.17 (1), p.192-200
Main Author: Stewart, Mary Lynn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Berry, Sarah
Buckley, Cheryl
Citizenship
Clothes
Democracy
Dress
Fashion
Fawcett, Hilary
Femininity
Feminism
History
Lipovetsky, Gilles
Nonfiction
Parkins, Wendy
Politics
Porter, Catherine
Review articles
Sennet, Richard
Social history
Translation
Turn of the century
Women
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Summary:Stewart reviews Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood by Sarah Berry, Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siecle to the Present by Cheryl Buckley and Hilary Fawcett, The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky, translated by Catherine Porter and with a foreword by Richard Sennet, and Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship edited by Wendy Parkins.
ISSN:1042-7961
1527-2036
1527-2036
DOI:10.1353/jowh.2005.0013