Dress as Metaphor – British Female Fashion and Social Change in the 20th Century
Regular price
€56.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
20th
A01=Katarzyna Kociolek
Author_Katarzyna Kociolek
Category=DSBH
Category=JBCC3
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Product details
- ISBN 9783631660041
- Weight: 352g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book traces the interconnectedness of women’s sartorial practices and social change in 20th-century Britain. Based on a wide range of cultural texts, which include literary works, magazines, posters, advertisements and political cartoons, this study endeavours to prove that due to the metaphorical function of clothing, womenswear imparted significant information about women’s positions in society during transformative historical moments.
Katarzyna Agnieszka Kociołek is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her doctoral dissertation (2009) examined the representations of ethnic identities in the British visual arts discourse of the 1980s and 1990s. Her research interests include the representation of identities and the visual culture, which incorporates fashion, film and visual arts
