1st Edition

Fashion New Feminist Essays

Edited By Ilya Parkins, Maryanne Dever Copyright 2020
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape, Fashion: New Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that reveal the relationships between fashion with gender, sexuality, race, and age. Fashion is a rich terrain for feminist scholars in the twenty-first century. Explicit engagements with feminist and queer politics, critical interventions by industry outsiders across... Read more

Introduction: Fashion and the Feminist Politics of the Present: An Introduction, Ilya Parkins

Chapter 1: Sisters in a Fashion: Martha Ansara and Elaine Welteroth, Kath Kenny

Chapter 2: ‘I Want to Wear It’: Fashioning Black Feminism in Mahogany (1975), Kimberly Lamm

Chapter 3: Fashion, Faith, Sexuality: An Interview with Reina Lewis, Ilya Parkins

Chapter 4: Digital Fashion Engagement through Affect, Personal Investments and Remix, Rosa Crepax

Chapter 5: Cindy Sherman in a New Millennium: Fashion, Feminism, Art and Ageing, Pamela Church Gibson

Chapter 6: Fashionable ‘Formation’: Reclaiming the Sartorial Politics of Josephine Baker, Jennifer Sweeney-Risko

Chapter 7: Just Use What You Have: Ethical Fashion Discourse and the Feminisation of Responsibility, Kath Horton

Chapter 8: Performative Rhetorics in Invisibility: Phoebe Philo’s Undone Authorship, Erin O’Connor

Biography

Ilya Parkins is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada. She specializes in feminist theory, mass culture, fashion, and femininities.



Maryanne Dever is co-editor of Australian Feminist Studies and has published widely on feminist literary and cultural studies. Her previous Routledge edited collections include Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research (2018). She works in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.