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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.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
1. Introduction to Thinking Through Fashion, Agnès Rocamora, University of the Arts London, UK and Anneke Smelik, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism, Anthony Sullivan, University of the Arts London, UK
3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis, Janice Miller, Kingston University, UK
4. Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet', Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
5. W.E.B. Du Bois: Fashion through the Veil, Luciana Scrutchen, Parsons School of Design, USA
6. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street, Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia and Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand
7. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body, Francesca Granata, Parsons School of Design, USA
8. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion, Llewellyn Negrin, University of Tasmania, Australia
9. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion (Paul Jobling, Parsons Pairs, France)
10. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation, Efrat Tseëlon, University of Leeds, UK)
11. Frantz Fanon: Fashion and Decolonisation on a Planetary Scale, Serkan Delice, University of the Arts London, UK
12. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion, Anneke Smelik, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
13. Michel Foucault: Fashioning Power and Resistance, Jane Tynan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning, Efrat Tseëlon, University of Leeds, UK
15. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion, Agnès Rocamora, University of the Arts London, UK
16. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure, Alison Gill, Western Sydney University, Australia
17. Edward Said: Orientalism, Fashion, and the Cultures of Imperialism, Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK
18. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion, Joanne Entwistle, King's College London, UK
19. bell hooks: Cultural Differences and Racial Justice in Fashion, Tanveer Ahmed, University of the Arts London, UK
20. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity, Elizabeth Wissinger, City University of New York, USA
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