Fashioning the Frame: Boundaries, Dress and the Body
The body has been the focus of much recent critical attention, but the clothed body less so. In answering the need to theorize dress, this book provides an overview of recent scholarship and presents an original theory of what dress means in relation to the body. Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and serves both to distinguish and connect self and 'Other'. The authors argue that clothing is, then, both a boundary and not a boundary, that it is ambiguous and produces a complex relation between self and 'not self'. In examining the role of dress in social structures, the autho…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Cavallaro, Dani / Eicher, Joanne B. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-85973-986-0
- EAN: 9781859739860
- Produktnummer: 1335997
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.2 cm 426 g
- Auflage: First
- Gewicht: 426
Über den Autor
Alexandra Warwick University of Westminster Dani Cavallaro Head of English,University of Westminster
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