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Book SynopsisLearning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one''s ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers'' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, c
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Thinking Through Fashion] would certainly prove useful to anyone making their first foray into the world of academic theory, and also for those needing to refresh their memories on the various theoretical approaches key to the study of western fashion. * The Journal of Dress History *
An important pedagogical contribution to the field of fashion studies ...
Thinking Through Fashion offers a very accessible guide as to how to use social and cultural theory to analyze fashion in its 'many manifestations'. * Fashion Theory *
While there’s no shortage of useful fashion studies readers and reference books for fashion studies students ... none have gone so far as to systematically provide suggestions for the application of key western theorists and philosophers to fashion studies so comprehensibly and concisely. * The Fashion Studies Journal *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction to Thinking through Fashion Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik 2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism Anthony Sullivan 3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis Janice Miller 4. Georg Simmel: The ‘Philosophical Monet’ Peter McNeil 5. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas 6. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body Francesca Granata 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion Llewellyn Negrin 8. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion Paul Jobling 9. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation Efrat Tseëlon 10. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion Anneke Smelik 11. Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic Jane Tynan 12. Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned Aurélie van de Peer 13. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning Efrat Tseëlon 14. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion Agnès Rocamora 15. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure Alison Gill 16. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion Joanne Entwistle 17. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity Elizabeth Wissinger Notes on Contributors Index
