The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761952060)

This exhaustive book demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the gift exchange, class, gender, and religion. It does this through an analysis of topics like the Islamic clothing controversy in state schools, the multitude of identities associated with dress, the Dress Reform movement, the construction of the body in fashion magazines, and the role of the internet in fashion. What emerges is a trenchant, sharply observed account of the place of dress in contemporary society.


Author: Peter Corrigan
ISBN-10: 0761952063
ISBN-13: 9780761952060
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2008
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.55w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 77