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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025
Series: Book 21 of 21 - Dress Cultures
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- Title
- Thinking through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (Dress Cultures)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350376515
- ISBN 13
- 9781350376519
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 21 of 21: Dress Cultures
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.
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About the Author
Reina Lewis is Emerita Professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, UAL, UK.
Anneke Smelik is emerita professor of Visual Culture and Fashion Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).
Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer in the development of fashion studies, and has been a university professor, feminist campaigner and activist. Her writing career began in the 'underground' magazines of the early 1970s, (Frendz, Red Rag, Spare Rib, Come Together) before she became an academic. She's written for the Guardian and her non-fiction books include Adorned in Dreams (1985, 2003), The Sphinx in the City (1992) (shortlisted for the Manchester Odd Fellows Prize), Bohemians (2000) and Love Game (2014) (long listed for the William Hill sportswriting prize), as well as six crime novels, including War Damage (2009) and The Girl in Berlin (2012) (long listed for the Golden Dagger Award).
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