Identities through fashion : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Ana Marta González and Laura Bovone.

By:

González, Ana Marta, 1969-

Contributor(s):

Bovone, Laura

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780857851192
0857851195
9780857851185
0857851187

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Identities through fashion.DDC classification:

746.9/2 23

LOC classification:

TT507 .G587 2012eb

Other classification:

DES005000

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Introduction / Diana Crane -- pt. 1. Fashion and identity. The modern Western fashion pattern, its functions and relationship to identity / Colin Campbell ; Fashion, image, identity / Ana Marta González ; Identity and intersubjectivity / Ann Margaret Brach -- pt. 2. Fashion as communication. Fashion, identity and social actors / Laura Bovone ; The proliferation of fashion and the decline of its code of meanings / Alejandro Nestor García Martínez ; How successful is communication via clothing? Thoughts and evidence on an unexamined paradigm / Efrat Tseëlon ; Adolescence : identity, fashion and narcissism / María Elena Larraín -- pt. 3. Fashion, image and health. Fashion, lifestyle and psychiatry / Raphael M. Bonelli ; The impact of the term 'fashion' on medical and psychiatric literature / Francesco Cecere ; Strong fashion and weak identity : a necessary association? / Maria Teresa Russo.

Summary: "With the triumph of a fashion milieu in which once tightly fixed rules have been deconstructed and most anything goes, fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines. This volume thus intends to bring together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's complex relationship with post-industrial societies. Herein the authors seek to address, from the standpoint of their respective disciplines, what crucial functions fashion is fulfilling in the modern world, especially as it relates to the construction and deconstruction of the self. This volume is the result of an Experts Meeting held by the Social Trends Institute at which the authors presented original papers that were then revised in light of the meeting discussion. The Social Trends Institute is a non-profit research center that offers institutional and financial support to academics in all fields who seek to make sense of emerging social trends and their effects on human communities. STI focuses its research on four subject areas: family, bioethics, culture and lifestyles, and corporate governance"-- Provided by publisher

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

"With the triumph of a fashion milieu in which once tightly fixed rules have been deconstructed and most anything goes, fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines. This volume thus intends to bring together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's complex relationship with post-industrial societies. Herein the authors seek to address, from the standpoint of their respective disciplines, what crucial functions fashion is fulfilling in the modern world, especially as it relates to the construction and deconstruction of the self. This volume is the result of an Experts Meeting held by the Social Trends Institute at which the authors presented original papers that were then revised in light of the meeting discussion. The Social Trends Institute is a non-profit research center that offers institutional and financial support to academics in all fields who seek to make sense of emerging social trends and their effects on human communities. STI focuses its research on four subject areas: family, bioethics, culture and lifestyles, and corporate governance"-- Provided by publisher