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Author Davis, Fred, 1925-

Title Fashion, culture, and identity / Fred Davis.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
©1992
Edition Pbk. ed.
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Phys. Description xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content Type text
Media Type unmediated
Carrier Type volume
Note Originally published in 1992.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.
Contents Do clothes speak? What makes them fashion? -- Identity ambivalence, fashion's fuel -- Ambivalences of gender : boys will be boys, girls will be boys -- Ambivalences of status : flaunts and feints -- Ambivalences of sexuality : the dialectic of the erotic and the chaste -- Fashion as cycle, fashion as process -- Stages of the fashion process -- Antifashion : the vicissitudes of negation -- Conclusion, and some afterthoughts.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
Costume -- Social aspects.
Fashion -- Social aspects.
Gender identity.
Group identity.
ISBN 0226138097 (pbk.)
9780226138091 (pbk.)
LC call no. GT525 .D38 1994