Dress, Body, Culture
Series Editor: Joanne B. Eicher, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota
Advisory Board:
Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts
Pamela Church-Gibson, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts
James Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago
Vicki Karaminas, University of Technology, Sydney
Gwen ONeal, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ted Polhemus, Curator, Street Style Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum
Valerie Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Lou Taylor, University of Brighton
Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University
Ruth Barnes, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Books in this provocative series seek to articulate the connections between culture and dress, which is defined here in its broadest possible sense as any modification or supplement to the body. Interdisciplinary in approach, the series highlights the dialogue between identity and dress, cosmetics, coiffure and body alternations as manifested in practices as varied as plastic surgery, tattooing, and ritual scarification. The series aims, in particular, to analyse the meaning of dress in relation to popular culture and gender issues and will include works grounded in anthropology, sociology, history, art history, literature and folklore.
ISSN: 1360-466X
Previously published in the series
Helen Bradley Foster, New Raiments of Self: African American Clothing in the Antebellum South
Claudine Griggs, S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes
Michaele Thurgood Haynes, Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas
Anne Brydon and Sandra Niessen, Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body
Dani Cavallaro and Alexandra Warwick, Fashioning the Frame: Boundaries, Dress and the Body
Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff, Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa
Linda B. Arthur, Religion, Dress and the Body
Paul Jobling, Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography
Fadwa El Guindi, Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance
Thomas S. Abler, Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress: European Empires and Exotic Uniforms
Linda Welters, Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs about Protection and Fertility
Kim K.P. Johnson and Sharron J. Lennon, Appearance and Power
Barbara Burman, The Culture of Sewing
Annette Lynch, Dress, Gender and Cultural Change
Antonia Young, Women Who Become Men
David Muggleton, Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style
Nicola White, Reconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry
Brian J. McVeigh, Wearing Ideology: The Uniformity of Self-Presentation in Japan
Shaun Cole, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Mens Dress in the Twentieth Century
Kate Ince, Orlan: Millennial Female
Nicola White and Ian Griffiths, The Fashion Business: Theory, Practice, Image
Ali Guy, Eileen Green and Maura Banim, Through the Wardrobe: Womens Relationships with their Clothes
Linda B. Arthur, Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
William J.F. Keenan, Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part
Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wilson, Body Dressing
Leigh Summers, Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset
Paul Hodkinson, Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture
Leslie W. Rabine, The Global Circulation of African Fashion
Michael Carter, Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes
Sandra Niessen, Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones, Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress
Kim K. P. Johnson, Susan J. Torntore and Joanne B. Eicher, Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress
Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson, Wedding Dress Across Cultures
Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt
Charlotte Suthrell, Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture
Irene Guenther, Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich
Yuniya Kawamura, The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion
Patricia Calefato, The Clothed Body
Ruth Barcan, Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy
Samantha Holland, Alternative Femininities: Body, Age and Identity
Alexandra Palmer and Hazel Clark, Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion
Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies
Regina A. Root, The Latin American Fashion Reader
Linda Welters and Patricia A. Cunningham, Twentieth-Century American Fashion
Jennifer Craik, Uniforms Exposed: From Conformity to Transgression
Alison L. Goodrum, The National Fabric: Fashion, Britishness, Globalization
Annette Lynch and Mitchell D. Strauss, Changing Fashion: A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning
Catherine M. Roach, Stripping, Sex and Popular Culture
Marybeth C. Stalp, Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life
Jonathan S. Marion, Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance
Dunja Brill, Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style
Joanne Entwistle, The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion: Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling
Juanjuan Wu, Chinese Fashion: From Mao to Now
Brent Luvaas, DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Cultures
Jianhua Zhao, The Chinese Fashion Industry
Eric Silverman, A Cultural History of Jewish Dress
Karen Hansen and D. Soyini Madison, African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance
Maria Mellins, Vampire Culture
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This book is like a personal diary, a memory lane leading to the people I have met and known throughout my life. It is therefore such a delight to thank the people who have inspired me and made this book possible.
Foremost, I am deeply grateful to my excellent supervisors, mentors and friends, Professor Meredith Jones and Professor Peter McNeil. This book would not have been possible without their continued guidance, enthusiasm and encouragement.
It is important to acknowledge both the Australia Postgraduate Award Scheme and the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Built Environment (DAB) at the University of Technology, Sydney, for offering me funding and facilities that were quite vital to the completion of this book. I would like to thank Ms Ann Hobson and the staff of the Faculty. I am indebted to my former fellow students and friends in both the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and DAB, who are too many to name here, for sharing this incredible journey and making it such a convivial experience. It is also my pleasure to acknowledge the support, generosity and advice of many individuals, who have, whether directly or indirectly, ensured the completion of this book. I would like to give special mention to Professor Jaqueline Berndt, Dr Tim Edwards, Dr Lucy Fraser, Professor Alisa Freedman, Ms Tiffany Godoy, Dr Olivier Krischer, Professor Vera Mackie, Ms Patricia Mears, Dr Yumiko Mikanagi, Professor Laura Miller, Professor Brian J. McVeigh, Mr Dominik Mohila, Dr Fuyubi Nakamura, Dr Ronnie Zuessman and two anonymous readers for their valuable suggestions, encouragement and feedback. I would also like to thank Dr Valerie Steele and the Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) team, Professor Toby Slade for offering me memorable opportunities to present portions of this book in New York and Honolulu, and my friends in Japan to whom the foundation of my knowledge and experience in Japanese fashion and popular culture is largely indebted.
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