| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fashion -- Psychological aspects.
|
|
Fashion -- Psychological aspects. |
|
Fashion design.
|
|
Fashion design. |
|
Identity (Psychology)
|
|
Identity (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Bovone, Laura.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: González, Ana Marta, 1969- Identities through fashion. Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2012 9780857850584 (DLC) 2011048951 (OCoLC)742506124 |
| ISBN |
9780857851192 (electronic book) |
|
0857851195 (electronic book) |
|
9780857851185 (electronic book) |
|
0857851187 (electronic book) |
|
9780857850584 |
|
085785058X |
|
9780857850577 |
|
0857850571 |
|
