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Exchanging Clothes : Habits of Being II /
"Clothing may not make the man (or woman), but it helps. How clothing as a vestige and artifact and as transmitter of identity moves from one use to another, from one fantasy to another fad, from one literary source to another visual one: these are the concerns of the essays in this volume. The...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Walking the walk: circulation and exchange / Paula Rabinowitz
- Accessory questions / Laura Montani
- Krizia and accessories / Mariuccia Mandelli
- The dress of thought: clothing and nudity in Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Ariosto / Anne Hollander
- Orbits of power: rings in James Merrill's poetry / Andrea Mariani
- Sheer luxury: Kate Chopin's "A pair of silk stockings" / Cristina Giorcelli
- Traveling light: Nellie Bly's all-inclusive bag / Cristina Scatamacchia
- Like their first pair of high-heeled shoes: continental accessories and Audrey Hepburn's cinematic coming of age / Alisia Grace Chase
- Word-processed for you by a professional seamstress / Karen Reimer
- Slips of the tongue: lesbian pulp fiction as how-to-dress manuals / Paula Rabinowitz
- A safety pin for Elizabeth: hard-edge accessorizing from punk subculture to high fashion / Vittoria C. Caratozzolo
- A knot to untie: social power, fetishism, and communication in the social history of the tie / Nello Barile
- Ornaments and feminine clothing tradition in Algeria; or, The identity quest / Chafika Dib-Marouf
- It is a garage sale at Savers every day: an ethnography of the Savers Thrift Department Store in Minneapolis / Katalin Medvedev
- Speaking out and speaking up: the circulating power of fashion / Cristina Giorcelli.