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9780745649382 English 0745649386 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overviewof fashion and dress from an historical and sociologicalperspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has nowentered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about'cultural' and 'creative' work as a majordriver of developed economies. With a new preface and new materialon the evolving fashion industry, this second edition gives a clearsummary of the theories surrounding the role and function offashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays acrucial role in the formation of modern identity through itsarticulation of the body, gender and sexuality.The book offers a much needed synthesis between the literatureon fashion and dress, and the sociology of the body, offering anupdated critique of the issues raised in the first edition.Entwistle shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requiresan understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culturesince it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed inalmost all social situations and encounters. She argues that whilefashion refers to a specific system of dress originating in thewest, all cultures 'dress' the body in the same way, making it a crucial feature of social order. Drawing on the work oftheorists, the book offers insights into the connections that needto be made between the body, fashion and dress.The Fashioned Body will be an invaluable resource for anyoneinterested in the social role of fashion and dress in modernculture.
9780745649382 English 0745649386 The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overviewof fashion and dress from an historical and sociologicalperspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has nowentered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about'cultural' and 'creative' work as a majordriver of developed economies. With a new preface and new materialon the evolving fashion industry, this second edition gives a clearsummary of the theories surrounding the role and function offashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays acrucial role in the formation of modern identity through itsarticulation of the body, gender and sexuality.The book offers a much needed synthesis between the literatureon fashion and dress, and the sociology of the body, offering anupdated critique of the issues raised in the first edition.Entwistle shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requiresan understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culturesince it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed inalmost all social situations and encounters. She argues that whilefashion refers to a specific system of dress originating in thewest, all cultures 'dress' the body in the same way, making it a crucial feature of social order. Drawing on the work oftheorists, the book offers insights into the connections that needto be made between the body, fashion and dress.The Fashioned Body will be an invaluable resource for anyoneinterested in the social role of fashion and dress in modernculture.