Fashioning the Body Politic

Dress, Gender, Citizenship

By: Wendy Parkins (Editor)

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Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the French Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and protest. Fashioning the Body Politic challenges the perception of helpless fashion victims, subject to manipulation by consumerism and the fashion industry, and shows how, in a range of historical and national contexts, certain styles of dress and display were significant for both men and women's political participation and the formation of their identities as citizens.

How did 'dressing up' in a variety of ways allow suffragette women to perform unconventional forms of political protest? In what ways did the uniforms of scouts and guides function to erect gender, racial and religious boundaries? Following the ban on traditional clothing in Imperial Russia, how did Russians appropriate European fashions and ethnic costumes to fashion new identities for themselves? Using these and a wealth of other case studies, Fashioning the Body Politic offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between men, women and fashion and shows that the political domain has always been permeated with the cultural practices of dress, display and bodily performance.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
List of Illustration	p. xi
Introduction: (ad)dressing Citizens	p. 1
Notes	p. 18
The Formation and Currency of a Vestimentary Stereotype: the Sans-Culotte in Revolutionary France	p. 19
Notes	p. 39
Subjects into Citizens: the Politics of Clothing in Imperial Russia	p. 49
Tailoring the Nation: Fashion Writing in Nineteenth-Century Argentina	p. 71
Notes	p. 94
'the Epidemic of Purple, White and Green': Fashion and the Suffragette Movement in Britain 1908-14	p. 97
Notes	p. 121
Scouts, Guides, and the Fashioning of Empire, 1-39	p. 125
Peeking under the Black Shirt: Italian Fascism's Disembodied Bodies	p. 145
Notes	p. 164
Camisas Nuevas: Style and Uniformity in the Falange Española 1-43	p. 167
Notes	p. 185
Blankets: the Visible Politics of Indigenous Clothing	p. 189
Acknowledgements	p. 204
Notes	p. 204
Children's Day: the Fashionable Performance of Modern Citizenship in China	p. 205
Notes	p. 216
Afterthought: Redressing the Balance in Historiography	p. 217
Notes	p. 226
Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 253
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