Body Dressing: Dress, Body, Culture

Exploring Gender, Photography, Cultural History And Modernity, This Title Examines The Way In Which The Dress Acts On The Body And Is Integral To Our Experience Of Embodiment. Introduction : Body Dressing -- Dress Needs : Reflections On The Clothed Body, Selfhood And Consumption -- The Dressed Body -- Shop-window Dummies? Fashion The Body, And Emergent Socialities -- Minding Appearances : Style, Truth, And Subjectivity -- From Fashion To Masquerade : Towards An Ungendered Paradigm -- When They Are Veyl'd On Purpose To Be Seen : The Metamorphosis Of The Mask In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-century London -- Performing Selfhood : The Costumed Body As A Site Of Mediation Between Life, Art And The Theatre In The English Renaissance -- Manliness, Modernity And The Shaping Of Male Clothing -- Embodying The Single Girl In The 1960s -- Desire And Dread : Alexander Mcqueen And The Contemporary Femme Fatale -- Fashioning The Queer Self -- Dress, Gender And The Public Display Of Skin. Edited By Joanne Entwistle And Elizabeth Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.