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The Cultural Politics of Fur: Capitalist Development in Modern Europe

The Cultural Politics of Fur: Capitalist Development in Modern Europe

Emberley, Julia V.

Paperback

Series: Cornell Paperbacks

AnthropologyFashion & AccessoriesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0801484049
ISBN13: 9780801484049
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 13 1998
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

A fascinating account of the powerful roles fur has played in various cultures and of the historical and political forces at work in the play of its meanings.--Jonathan Culler, Cornell UniversityIn this well-written treatise, Emberley... views fur through widely disparate lenses.... Emberley is able to make us understand all the viewpoints she presents.... A valuable book on a little-explored subject.--Library JournalThis is a strong and intelligent work on a controversial topic. Emberley's book is much more intellectually sophisticated than anything else I've seen on this subject.--Valerie Steele, Editor, Fashion TheoryJulia Emberley's book is a complex, wide-ranging, and fascinating feminist critique of the history and meaning of fur and fashion. Particularly unique is her integration of indigenous voices into the debates.--Lucy Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on ArtFur has been sparking controversies ever since sumptuary laws marked it as a luxury item and as a sign of medieval class privilege. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary sources, Julia V. Emberley explains how a material good has become both a symbol of wealth and sexuality, and a symptom of class, gender, and imperial antagonisms.

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