Fashion talks undressing the power of style /
edited by Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Fashioning a feminist style, or, How I learned to dress from reading feminist theory / Dressing left: conforming, transforming, and shifting masculine style / The baby bump is the new Birkin / Fashion as adaptation: the case of American Idol / My mannequin, myself: embodiment in fashion's mirror / Life's too short to wear comfortable shoes: femme-ininity and sex work / Japanese Lolita: challenging sexualized style and the little-girl look / Glam Abaya: contemporary Emirati couture / Ado(red), abhor(red), disappea(red): fashioning race, poverty, and morality under Product (Red) / The lady is a vamp: Cruella de Vil and the cultural politics of fur / Something borrowed, something blue: what's an indie bride to do? / Steampunk: stylish subversion and colonial chic / DIY fashion and going Bust: wearing feminist politics in the twenty-first century / Stylish contradiction: mix-and-match as the fashion of feminist ambivalence / Astrid Henry -- Shira Tarrant -- Renée Ann Cramer -- Leslie Heywood and Justin R. Garcia -- Denis Witzig -- Jayne Swift -- Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal -- Jan C. Kreidler -- Evangeline M. Heiliger -- Catherine Spooner -- Elline Lipkin -- Diana M. Pho and Jaymee Goh -- Jo Reger -- Marjorie Jolles.