Acts of Undressing

Politics, Eroticism, and Discarded Clothing

Barbara Brownie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-9619-2 (ISBN)

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The act of undressing has a multitude of meanings, which vary dramatically when this commonly private gesture is presented for public consumption. This ground-breaking book explores the significance of undressing in various cultural and social contexts.

As we are increasingly obsessed with dress choices as signifiers of who we are and how we feel, an investigation into what happens as we remove our clothes has never been more pertinent. Exploring three main issues - politics, tease, and clothes without bodies - Acts of Undressing discusses these key themes through an in-depth and eclectic mix of case studies including flashing at Mardi Gras, the World Burlesque Games, and ‘shoefiti’ used by gangs to mark territories.

Building on leading theories of dress and the body, from academics including Roland Barthes and Mario Perniolato, Ruth Barcan and Erving Goffman, Acts of Undressing is essential reading for students of fashion, sociology, anthropology, visual culture, and related subjects.

Barbara Brownie is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2014), co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015), and has contributed to edited collections including Writing Design (Berg, 2011).

Introduction

Chapter 1: Private Acts, Public Display
Chapter 2: Narrative Tease: Neo-burlesque and Storytelling through Striptease
Chapter 3: ‘Where the Garment Gapes’: The Eroticism of Intermittence
Chapter 4: Deviance and Disruption: Streaking, Mooning and Flashing
Chapter 5: Make Love, Not War: Conflict, Resistance and the Revolutionary Body
Chapter 6: Abandoned Clothes: Separating Dress from Body

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Dress, Body, Culture
Zusatzinfo	18 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 238 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4725-9619-6 / 1472596196
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-9619-2 / 9781472596192
Zustand	Neuware