{"product_id":"dressed-for-freedom-9780252044014","title":"Dressed for Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating and accessible examination of fashion and feminism throughout history.\" --\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thought-provoking. . . . Recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Rabinovitch-Fox provides an engaging and accessible history of American fashion and its relationship to feminism across the twentieth-century. . . . A highly readable and pacey book that will deservedly find a wider readership outside the academy. \" --\u003ci\u003eGender and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An essential book on the politics of fashion.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"In her elegantly constructed, thought-provoking book, Einav Rabinovitch-Fox skillfully disproves popular misconceptions and greatly enriches existing scholarship about feminism and fashion in the long twentieth-century. Beginning in the 1890s and ending in the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eDressed for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e documents the myriad, complex ways in which diverse groups of women used fashion as a means of self-empowerment, expression of feminist identity.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDressed for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative exploration of the ever-shifting and complex relationship between feminists and fashion. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox shows how women as activists, designers, and consumers translated feminist ideas into everyday practices and turned shirtwaists and sportswear into the material through which women asserted identities and claimed rights to freedom of movement.\"--Maxine Leeds Craig, author of \u003ci\u003eSorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fashion and feminism may seem antithetical, but Einav Rabinovitch-Fox cogently argues that they are closely intertwined. Her stimulating book highlights how Gibson girls, flappers, women designers, and even 1960s feminists saw modern clothes as an integral part of women’s freedom.\"--Kathy Peiss, author of \u003ci\u003eHope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-organized and accessible, \u003ci\u003eDressed for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e fills in long-standing gaps in social movement, fashion, and feminist histories for all levels of interested readers.\" --\u003ci\u003eCoordinating Council for Women in History\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400453562711,"sku":"9780252044014","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252044014.jpg?v=1730470717","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dressed-for-freedom-9780252044014","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}