| Description |
1 online resource (161 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Dress, Body, Culture
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Dress, body, culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Private Acts, Public Display; Undressing at home: Participants and observers; Cut Piece: Public participation in undressing; The choreography of concealment; 2 Narrative Tease: Neo-burlesque and Storytelling through Striptease; Neo-burlesque and dramatic undressing; Gender narratives; Autobiographical burlesque: Undressing in the pursuit of self; Exposing disability; 3 "Where the Garment Gapes": The Eroticism of Intermittence; Versace: Exposure in motion; Hussein Chalayan and unstable coverage; Fasteners and unfastening. |
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4 Deviance and Disruption: Streaking, Mooning, and FlashingIndecent exposure; Exposure and sport; Legitimizing and commodifying public disrobement; 5 Make Love, Not War: Conflict, Resistance, and the Revolutionary Body; Gestures of defiance; Anasyrma: Proof, shock, and awe; Memorializing the undressed; 6 Abandoned Clothes: Separating Dress from Body; Abandoned clothes as territorial markers; Tossed shoes and gang territory; Abandoned selves; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
"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. Divided into three main sections, '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, the ripping of uniforms in the Star Trek television series, 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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Undressing.
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Undressing. |
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Fashion & society. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming. |
| Added Author |
Eicher, Joanne Bubolz.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brownie, Barbara. Acts of Undressing : Politics, Eroticism, and Discarded Clothing. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2016 9781472596185 |
| ISBN |
9781472596215 (electronic book) |
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1472596218 (electronic book) |
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9781472596222 (electronic book) |
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1472596226 (electronic book) |
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9781472596185 |
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