Fashioning the Frame: Boundaries, Dress and the Body

by Alexandra Warwick and Dani Cavallaro

Book Overview

The body has been the focus of much recent critical attention, but the clothed body less so. In answering the need to theorize dress, this book provides an overview of recent scholarship and presents an original theory of what dress means in relation to the body. Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and serves both to distinguish and connect self and 'Other'. The authors argue that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859739865
• ISBN13: 9781859739860
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"