Fashion and Cultural Studies - Softcover

Kaiser, Susan B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350109606 ISBN 13: 9781350109605

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

Synopsis

Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields.

Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine identity and difference, agency and structure, and production and consumption. Fashion, meanwhile, benefits from the interpretative lens of cultural studies; its key concepts, contextual flexibility, and attention to bridging 'high' and 'popular' culture, contemporary and historical perspectives, and diverse identity issues and methodologies.

Organised thematically, the book uses a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore ethnicity, class, gender and nation through fashion, and explains the ways in which these notions interact and overlap. Drawing on intersectionality theory in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars.

About this title

About the Author

Susan B. Kaiser is Professor of Textiles and Clothing, and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, and is a member of the Cultural Studies Graduate Groups at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context (2nd edition).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350109606
• ISBN 13: 9781350109605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240