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Fashion Theory: Volume 8, Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)
Fashion Theory Volume 8 Issue 2 The Journal of Dress Body and Culture - Fashion Theory Author:Valerie Steele The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established. By contrast, the study of dress has traditionally suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of fashion as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and... more » interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. Fashion Theory provides a vital contribution to cultural studies, art, history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology. It is multi-disciplinary, features international coverage and is heavily illustrated.« less