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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Barbie Magazine and the Aesthetic Commodification of Girls' Bodies | 21 | |
| This Year's Girl: A Personal/Critical History of Twiggy | 41 | |
| A Woman's Two Bodies: Fashion Magazines, Consumerism, and Feminism | 59 | |
| No Bumps, No Excrescences: Amelia Earhart's Failed Flight into Fashions | 76 | |
| Sonia Rykiel in Translation | 95 | |
| From Celebration | 100 | |
| Off the (W)rack: Fashion and Pain in the Work of Diane Arbus | 111 | |
| An Erotics of Representation: Fashioning the Icon with Man Ray | 125 | |
| Seduction and Elegance: The New Woman of Fashion in Silent Cinema | 140 | |
| Madonna, Fashion, and Identity | 159 | |
| Fragments of a Fashionable Discourse | 183 | |
| Women Recovering Our Clothes | 197 | |
| Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look | 211 | |
| Terrorist Chic: Style and Domination in Contemporary Ireland | 235 | |
| Paris or Perish: The Plight of the Latin American Indian in a Westernized World | 267 | |
| Tribalism in Effect | 284 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 301 | |
| Contributors' Notes | 303 | |
| Index | 307 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Elly Chen
reviewed On Fashion on April 30, 2015
On Fashion
Let it first be said that I find this book enjoyable. Like Sex and the City and Project Runway, it's a pleasure that I don't really understand and that doesn't seem to match my self-concept, but that tickles me all the same. However, I cannot FATHOM at whom this book was targeted, to whom it was marketed, or for whom it was successfully pitched. I mean, a book of essays about fashion I can see. Even one author's fashion oeuvre, okay. But. It's an oversized -- almost coffee-table sized -- hardback with thick, expensive-looking pages -- full of, um, prose. Every so often there's a two-page spread: a vaguely related photograph or, hey, just a wacky color (mostly spring tones, if that helps). Visually, it's a showpiece for an expensive and feminine (and spring-toned) living room; content-wise, it's a totally normal New Yorker style vanity anthology.
I couldn't help but wonder,
Wouldn't the person who would pay the $30+ for this book much more likely have spent that $30+ on one-tenth of a pair of shoes?
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