Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present

by Bloomsbury

Book Overview

Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology, whether political, social or religious. From the communist values of equality, simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao suit to the myriad of fashion protests of feminists such as French revolutionary women's demand to wear trousers, dress can symbolize ideological orthodoxy as well as revolt.

With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472529340
• ISBN13: 9781472529343
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"