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Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History

Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History

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BeautyGeneral European HistoryGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 113849318X
ISBN13: 9781138493186
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 5 2019
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one's identity.

This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, religious norms and conversions. Apparel is now recognized for its seminal role in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements and for its role in personal and collective expression. Patterns of exchange and commerce are discussed by contributing authors to analyse powerful and diverse colonial and postcolonial practices. This volume rejects assumptions surrounding a purportedly all-powerful Western metropolitan fashion system and instead aims to emphasize how diverse populations seized agency through the fashioning of dress.

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