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Fashioning Politics and Protests


Fashioning Politics and Protests

New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States
Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body

von: Emily L. Newman

CHF 130.00

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 18.03.2023
ISBN/EAN: 9783031162275
Sprache: englisch

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Through meticulous examinations, this book analyzes how women update their identities and articulate their feelings through clothing and art in protests, politics in the United States in the 20th century. Topics explored include the suffragists and their impact on contemporary art, the significance of the red dress in both <i>The Handmaid’s Tale</i> and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, the impact of the Miss America protests, the rising popularity of the pantsuit for women, the recent dominance of the pussyhat, and the way that feminist slogans are disseminated on t-shirts. Movements discussed include craftivism, hashtag culture, feminism, the CROWN act, Pantsuit Nation, socially-committed stores, and more. Interdisciplinary and intersectional at its core, addressing numerous areas, including fashion, sociology, visual culture, art history, feminism, and popular culture; <i>Fashioning Politics and Protests</i> uncovers how women continue to use visual means, exploredvia their clothing, to change the world.<p></p><div></div>
<p>1. Introduction: I Will Not Be the Last.- 2.Redress the Red Dress.- 3. CROWNing a New Kind of Miss America.- 4. When Women Wear the Pants.- 5.What’s New Pussyhat?.-6.Epilogue: The Future is Female … and Intersectional, Gender-Fluid, and Unexpected.-7.Postscript: November 7, 2022</p><p></p>
<b>Emily L. Newman </b>is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. Her research concerns intersections of modern and contemporary art history, popular culture, fashion, and the female body exemplified by her latest book, <i>Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness </i>(2018).<br>
Through meticulous examinations, this book analyzes how women update their identities and articulate their feelings through clothing and art in protests, politics in the United States in the 20th century. Topics explored include the suffragists and their impact on contemporary art, the significance of the red dress in both&nbsp;<i>The Handmaid’s Tale</i>&nbsp;and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, the impact of the Miss America protests, the rising popularity of the pantsuit for women, the recent dominance of the pussyhat, and the way that feminist slogans are disseminated on t-shirts. Movements discussed include craftivism, hashtag culture, feminism, the CROWN act, Pantsuit Nation, socially-committed stores, and more. Interdisciplinary and intersectional at its core, addressing numerous areas, including fashion, sociology, visual culture, art history, feminism, and popular culture;&nbsp;<i>Fashioning Politics and Protests</i>&nbsp;uncovers how women continue to use visual means, explored via their clothing, to change the world.<div><br></div><div><b>Emily L. Newman&nbsp;</b>is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. Her research concerns intersections of modern and contemporary art history, popular culture, fashion, and the female body exemplified by her latest book,&nbsp;<i>Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness&nbsp;</i>(2018).<br></div>
Interdisciplinary coverage incorporating Fashion, Art, Gender Studies, Sociology, American Studies and more Accessibly written and of interest to audiences beyond academia Unique in topic and focus; these issues have not been considered together previously

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