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Book SynopsisWhat the smallest detail of dress reveals about gender, sexuality, race, politics, and aesthetics.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade
Introduction: Accessorizing the Modern(ist) Body, by Cristina Giorcelli
1. No Frills, No-Body, Nobody, by Manuela Fraire
2. The Cult of Femininity, Micol Fontana, conversing with Cristina Giorcelli
3. Fashion’s Model Bodies: A Genealogy, by Paola Colaiacomo
4. Wearing the Body over the Dress: Sonia Delaunay’s Fashionable Clothes, by Cristina Giorcelli
5. Futurist Accessories, by Franca Zoccoli
6. Coco, Zelda, Sara, Daisy, and Nicole: Accessories for New Ways of Being a Woman, by Martha Banta
7. Precious Objects: Laura Riding, Her Tiara, and the Petrarchan Muse, by Becky Peterson
8. Spanish Women’s Clothing during the Long Postwar Period (1937-1950), by Giuliana Di Febo
9. The Yellow Star Accessorized: Ironic Discourse in
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, by Zsófia Bán
10. Terra Divisa/Terra Divina (T/E/A/R), by Maria Damon
11. Black Hattitude, by Jeffrey C. Stewart
12. Barbara Stanwyck’s Anklet: The Other Shoe, by Paula Rabinowitz
13. Fetishizing the Goods in the Cinematic Jewel, by Vito Zagarrio
14. Enchanted Sandals: Italian Shoes and the Post-World War II International Scene, by Vittoria C. Caratozzolo
Conclusion: In Closing/Close Clothing, by Paula Rabinowitz
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